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About Shane:
Shane is a passionate researcher and advocate for the transgender community. He uses an integrative approach of not only personal anecdotes from his own experience being trans, but also findings from his research to create unique, personal, and factual story telling.
Shane was featured in Laverne Cox Presents: The T Word, an Emmy-winning documentary that premeired on MTV and LOGO which followed the lives of 7 transgender youth from around the country. He has used this platform to advocate not only on a community level, but on a national level as well. Shane currently attends Teachers College at Columbia University and is working towards a Masters of Education in Psychological Counseling.
"I asked students in class today to reflect on your presentation, and the response was overwhelmingly positive. Most students in my class had never (to their knowledge) met a trans* person, and enjoyed the opportunity to connect with his personal experience. For me, it was so valuable to put faces, personalities, and emotions to the social issues, identity terminology, and political debates we talk about in class. [His] openness and willingness to share [his] story provided a welcome break from the textbook, and was entertaining and engaging for the class. [His] talk was well-organized and did a great job of identifying "the basics" that cis- people ought to know without it feeling dumbed-down or preachy."
-Katherine Ross, Professor, University of Maryland College Park
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