Current Activist and Volunteer Work:
- Intersex Activist and Speaker 2001-Present
Highlights of Past Activist and Volunteer Work:
- Charis Circle, Atlanta, GA; Volunteer 1999-2008
- Governor’s Council on Developmental Disabilities via Charis Circle, Atlanta, GA; Organizing Institute Fellow 2006-2007
- Charis Circle, Atlanta, GA; Board member; Community Liaison (Non-profit feminist organization) 2005-2008
- Dekalb Rape Crisis Center, Decatur, GA; Crisis Line Volunteer and Survivor Advocate 2005-2007
- Bodies Like Ours, USA; Board member and speaker (Intersex peer support and education organization) 2002-2006
- Fix It Up!, Brunswick, GA; Organizing Team Member and Media Spokesperson (a partnership between white, anti-racist, anti-capitalist activists and local community members created in response to the G8 Summit in coastal Georgia) 2004
- Charis Circle’s Sistergirls Program, Atlanta, GA; Mentor (Mentorship program for young women ages 9-14) 2004
- Anti-Racist Action, Atlanta, GA; Core organizer (Grassroots anti-racist organization) 2002-2004
- Center For Democratic Renewal, Atlanta, GA; Research Assistant (Non-profit informational clearinghouse on white supremacists and others in the far right) 2002-2005
- VIVA! USA, USA; Volunteer (Non-profit animal rights organization) 2000-2005
- Atlanta Lesbian Avengers; Founding member of one of the many Atlanta incarnations 2001
- Mutual Aid Collective; Founding member (Anarchist collective) 2000-2001
- 1999 Primate Freedom Tour Member (Nationwide tour and protest of Primate Research Centers) 1999
- The Animal Defense League, Atlanta, GA; Director and Primary Organizer (Animal rights organization) 1999-2004
Other Interesting Things I Have Done:
- Plaintiff in high-profile federal lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security
- Served as part of American Civil Liberties Union delegation to Human Rights Committee meetings of the United Nations in New York City in March 2006
- Featured in Southern Voice “Next Generation of Gay Atlanta” article in April 2007 with 19 other “up and coming” LGBTQ activists.
- Completed People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond ‘Undoing Racism’ training
- Frequent lecturer at conferences, universities and for community organizations throughout the United States on the topic of intersex including: Emory University, Spelman College, Agnes Scott College, Georgia State Univeristy, Southern Comfort Conference, Our True Colors Conference, Unity Conference, Southern Girls Convention, Echoes of Violence, The National Conference on Organized Resistance, The Sweaty South Queer and Trans Convergence, The United States Social Forum, Charis Books and More, Georgia Association of Physicians for Human Rights, and Charis Circle.
- Featured in award winning intersex documentary “One in 2000” by: Ajae Clearway
- Member of small organizing team for the December 17th, 2007 International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers event at Charis Books and More.
- Panel member and speaker at “Whose Vagina Monologues?: Feminist Critiques of V-Day” in February 2008 at Emory University
- Essay “Reclaiming Femme” appears in ‘Visible: A Femmethology, Volume Two’ edited by: Jennifer Clare Burke, published by: Homofactus Press. The Femmethology books have nominated for the 2009 American Library Association Rainbow List.
- Subject of the song ‘Caitlin Childs’ by the band the Dead Milkmen, featured on their 2011 album ‘The King in Yellow’
