TJFP is so excited to introduce our third of six Community Grantmaking Fellows, Kayla Rena Gore! Kayla Rena Gore works to help to coordinate homeless services, conduct direct outreach and advocate for the rights of TLGBQ people, especially  transgender women as the Co-Founder and Executive Director of My Sistah’s House. She studied Sociology at Southwest. […]

We are so excited to welcome Ezak Amaviska Perez to TJFP’s 2018 grantmaking team! Ezak was born and raised in and around Los Angeles, CA. They are a Two Spirit, Hopi Native American and Latinx community organizer. They have been leading trainings locally in LA as well as nationally for the past 12+ years. He is currently the Organizational […]

A huge welcome to Keiva Lei Cadena! Keiva Lei is a Native Hawaiian Transgender Woman. She was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area and has called Honolulu, Hawaii home for the last 20 years. She works as the Community Engagement Coordinator at Life Foundation in Honolulu, where she plans and facilitates programs, […]

We are beyond honored to welcome Everette Thompson to this years community-led grantmaking panel. Everette has over 20 years of experience in community organizing, organizational development, and movement building.  He’s a Southerner by birth and choice, and has dedicated his career to strengthening organizational infrastructure in the South. Currently he serves as an Organizer with […]

Thank you Isabel Sousa-Rodriguez for saying “Yes!” to joining TJFP’s 2018 grantmaking team! Isabel was born in Bogota, Colombia and moved to Miami with their family at the age of 6. They began community organizing against deportations and for immigration reform in 2007 and have since become the Membership and Organizing Director and the Florida […]

TJFP’s role is to support grassroots trans leadership across the country. If you wanna learn more about what trans leadership can look like, we invite to you to check out the video we made as part of TJFP’s From the Ground to the Sky tour that highlights the work our previous grantee, The Tennessee Transgender Political […]

TJFP is so excited to introduce the first of our six grantmaking fellows, Bré Anne Campbell! Bré is a black woman of trans experience from Detroit, Michigan. She is the co-director of Trans Sistas of Color Project- Detroit, the first trans lead organization in Michigan dedicated to uplifting and impacting the lives of trans women […]

Congratulations to 2017 TJFP Grantmaking Fellow, Quentin Bell and previous grantee, The Knights of the Orchid Society on the recent opening of the Black Sheep Relief Center! “As a native of Selma, Bell felt that his connection with his hometown was what called him to open the relief center. “I felt like I had a […]

So excited to announce our sixth and final 2016 TJFP panelist, Luce Lincoln. Luce Capco Lincoln is a trans, non-binary, queer Filipino filmmaker, media educator and organizer committed to using media to fight for social justice. Originally from Gainesville, FL, currently living in Brooklyn, Luce works as Program Director at Global Action Project, where media is used as […]

Trans Lifeline‘s call volume has “nearly doubled” since NC Governor Pat McCrory signed HB 2, which denies trans folks access to public bathrooms based on birth certificate gender markers, according to a recent article in The Daily Beast.   2015 TJFP Grantee, Trans Lifeline, runs a crisis hotline staffed by transgender people for transgender people. They […]

Wow Seattle friends and family, you really showed up big time to support last week’s TJFP Happy Hour fundraiser!  It was a perfect Saturday evening in the Herb Garden of Cafe Flora to celebrate local trans justice work and raise some money. Over 40 people gathered to eat, drink, be in community and help TJFP raise over $1,600. […]

Running simultaneously with Incite’s Color of Violence 4 (COV4) conference, the National Trans & Gender Non-Conforming Anti-Violence gathering brought together nearly 100 participants from 22 states. Coordinated by the Transgender Law Center, we met for two days in Chicago to do collective healing work, address violence in our communities, share resources, and strategize, strategize, strategize! Amongst the many, many things shared […]