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Welcome to our speakers bureau page. Below you will find a list of available speakers. Feel free to locate a speaker in your area, if none are available email the person nearest to you. Most speakers are willing to travel.
We are always in the process of adding more speakers so please check back often.
Disclaimer: The people listed on the Intersex Collective speakers bureau represent a wide range of experience and beliefs. Intersex Collective cannot endorse specific speakers, so we encourage you to contact speakers directly to see which one best meets your needs.
Lynnell Stephani Long
Lynnell Stephani Long is an Intersex woman, Activist & Educator. She has spoken across the USA & Canada, educating people about Intersex and Intersex Genitalia Mutilation.
Lynnell's short-movies, "My Body is my Body," and "Momma and them call me James," has been shown in multiple film festivals. She recently finished a short-movie called "Still the one," which she hopes to be submitted to film festivals as well.
Lynnell has spoken publicly on the subject of improving treatment for people with Intersex conditions and their families, including an appearance on the Montel Williams Show in 2002 and Oprah Winfrey Show in 2007. Lynnell was also in Intersex documentary "One in 2000" by Ajae Clearway.
She is a license Paramedic in Chicago, columnist and freelance photographer for Windy City Times Magazine; poet, graphic & web designer. Her passion is educating people on Intersex!
Her hope is to prevent what happened to her and other Intersex people to Intersex children. She also wants to let other Intersex adults know they are not alone!
For more informaton please email Lynnell at Lynnellstephani@ameritech.net.
Her personal website is www.millarca.com/intersex.html
Jen Pagonis
Jen is a recent gradute of DePaul University. She received her degree in Women's and Gender Studies and completed her thesis on the topic of intersexuality.
Her thesis presentation included original research and interviews with intersex activists from the San Francisco bay and Chicago areas.
Jen has been invited by faculty and students groups to give talks at DePaul University. She is currently working on creating a peer led intersex youth and parent group in the Chicago area.
For more information please email Jen at jenpagonis@gmail.com
Esther Morris Leidolf
Esther Morris Leidolf, BA is the president and founder of the MRKH Organization, a network for women with Mayer Rokitansky Kuster Hauser Syndrome. She shares her Intersex experience as an activist, gender and sexuality educator and medical sociologist.
Esther has published articles and studies in Sojourner, OurBodies OurSelves, The Journal of Gay and Lesbian Psychotherapy and most recently in The Journal of Homosexuality, She is available for trainings or talks in classrooms and conferences.
Go to www.MRKH.org for an extensive list of presentations, articles and resources. Her most recent interview about MRKH can be viewed at www.GenderVision.org
For more information please email Esther at mrkhOrg@gmail.com
Debbie Hartman
Debbie Hartman, has been involved with intersex health since her daughter was born in 1993. She has gained a wealth of information after navigating conflicting opinions and misinformation about her daughters physical and mental health care needs. Deb has been featured in 2 teaching videos,Time magazine and various other magazines in the United States as well.
She is a former board member of the intersex society of north america and still serves as one of isna's members on the speaking buerea. She is also a former founding board member of 'Bodies Like Ours'. She has been a regular speaker at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and various locations for Widener University.&n bsp;
She is available to speak in the Philadelphia, Delaware, New Jersey and New York area.
For more information please email Debbie at dhartman61@comcast.net
David Cameron
David Cameron served as an appointed member to the San Francisco Human Rights Commission’s LGBT Advisory Committee from 2003-2006 and was a member of their Intersex Task Force. This Task Force was the first governmental body in the U.S. to organize a public hearing on medical intersex treatments that involved gender assignments.
Currently he volunteers as the USA Intersex Human Rights spokesperson for the Organization Intersex International as Marriage Equality USA’s Intersex Outreach Director, and is on the Board of Directors for Advocates for Informed Choice.
David lives with his partner, Peter Tannen, in San Francisco.
For more information please email David at DCameronXXY@aol.com or visit Marriage Equality USA.
Caitlin Childs
Caitlin Childs is a queer, intersex activst from Atlanta, GA. She got involved in intersex activism at the age of 18 after seeing other intersex activists speak and connecting their struggles to her own diagnosis at the age of 15.
Since then she has spoken at universities, colleges, conferences and to community organizations in Atlanta and around the United States and is a former board member of Bodies Like Ours. She was recently featured in Ajae Clearway's film "One in 2000," and was chosen by Southern Voice (Atlanta's gay weekly) as one of the "Leaders of the Next Generation of Gay Atlanta."
Caitlin is available for speaking engagements of all types and sizes and to all types of audiences, as well as film screenings, panels, classroom lectures, trainings and more.
For more information email Caitlin at caitlinpetrakischilds@gmail.com