Service & Leadership
Boards & Community Work
Public service, professional leadership, and community partnerships grounded in health equity, LGBTQ+ well-being, aging justice, and evidence-based care.
Key Areas of Focus
What This Work Focuses On
Medical Governance
Supporting patient safety, accountability, and equitable standards of care.
Professional Leadership
Helping scholarly organizations translate research into public understanding.
Community Engagement
Building LGBTQ+ support, visibility, alumni connection, and institutional trust.
Research Translation
Turning evidence into reports, trainings, advising, and public scholarship.
Public Sector
Public Service & Boards
Washington, D.C. Board of Medicine
Media: Public Member
Date: June 2024–Present
Summery
Contributing to decisions on licensure, patient safety, professional accountability, and care standards.
Interstate Medical Licensure Compact Commission
Media: Commissioner for Washington, D.C.
Date: October 2025–Present
Summery
Supporting national work on physician licensure, healthcare access, and cross-state practice.
Expert Direction
Professional Leadership
American Sociological Association
Leadership focused on LGBTQ+ scholars, public sociology, policy outreach, and research translation.
Southern Sociological Society
Supporting gender and sexuality scholarship, mentoring, equity, and justice-oriented service.
Pride Alumni Network
Building LGBTQ+ alumni engagement, programming, visibility, and community connection.
Advising & Collaboration
I advise organizations, agencies, clinical programs, and public health stakeholders on gender measurement, transgender inclusion, LGBTQ+ safe spaces, affirming care, and institutional practice.
Group Work
Collaborative Projects
Johns Hopkins Center for Transgender and Gender Expansive Health
Supporting research coordination, student mentorship, ethical study design, and care-focused evidence.
LGBTQ+ Aging Partnerships
Connecting research with community needs around aging, care access, social support, and affirming environments.
Public Scholarship Collaborations
Creating reports, trainings, policy briefs, media work, and public-facing resources.
Closing Section
Research, service, and community work can strengthen institutions and improve lives.
Across reports, testimony, advisory work, and applied partnerships, my goal is to make research clear, useful, and actionable in the places where decisions affect people’s lives.
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