Jae Basiliere is the chief diversity officer at Northern Vermont University. Dr. Jae Basiliere is the Chief Diversity Officer for Vermont State University. They received their Ph.D. in Gender Studies from Indiana University, and began their career as a professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Their research and scholarship sits at the intersection of rural queer studies, drag performance, and activist histories. Since joining the Vermont State Colleges System in 2021, Jae has been exploring what it looks like to approach institutional diversity work through a harm reduction model. In their free time, Jae centers joy by spending time outdoors in our beautiful state with their wife and dogs, playing tabletop and video games, and laughing as loud as possible.
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Treasure Faith Brooks is a multidisciplinary artist and creative strategist from Oakland, California currently based in New York City. She is a founding member of The Meteor, a feminist media company launched in 2021 under the direction of former Editor-In-Chief of both Glamour and Self magazines, Cindi Leive. She is also founder of Maroon, a creative house exercising political resistance through community activations centered on wellness and spiritual literacy.
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Anahi Russo Garrido is an Associate Professor in Gender, Women’s and Sexuality Studies and currently serves as Director of the Gender Institute for Teaching and Advocacy at Metropolitan State University of Denver. She completed her PhD in Gender and Women’s Studies at Rutgers University. Her research and teaching have focused on transnational sexualities, gender and sexuality in Latin America, queer and feminist theory and contemplative practices and social justice organizing. She is the author of Tortilleras Negotiating Intimacy: Love, Friendship and Sex in Queer Mexico City(Rutgers University Press, 2020) and co-editor of Building Feminist Movements and Organizations: Global Perspectives (Zed Books, 2007). She is currently working on a new book on contemplative practices and racial justice activism.
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Kelly Sharron is an assistant teaching professor in the Sociology and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Departments at University of Kansas. Sharron completed her PhD in Gender and Women’s studies at the University of Arizona in 2019. Her research broadly considers the multiple state tactics at play in police brutality including the extension of a feminist ethic of care in producing violent effects. Sharron’s work has been published in Somatechnics, TSQ: Trans Studies Quarterly, and Abolition Journal. She is currently co-editing a textbook titled Feminist Studies: Foundations, Conversations, Applications (Routledge Press).
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Stina Soderling is the Elihu Root Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor in Women’s and Gender Studies at Hamilton College.
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Abraham Weil is an assistant professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at University of Kansas and the general editor of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly published by Duke University Press. His training is situated in transgender studies, art and aesthetics, critical animal studies, psychoanalysis, Marxist geography, and black studies. He serves as the inaugural booklist editor in “Transgender Theory” at Bloomsbury Press and is currently co-editing two textbooks: Transgender Theory (Bloomsbury) and Feminist Studies: Foundations, Conversations, Applications (Routledge), and co-authoring the second edition of A Critical Introduction to Queer Theory (NYU Press). His current manuscript projects include: Transmolecular Revolution: Trans*versality and the Mattering of Political Life which focuses on revolutionary political formations, anti-black racism, trans theorizing, and continental philosophy in the US and France from the 1960s to the present and On Jargon which focuses on the language of contemporary black intellectual production.