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Announcing Imara Jones as Board Chair
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[Photo of Imara Jones]
Image description: Imara, visible from the waist up, in front of a light blue background, looking at the camera and smiling. She has medium brown skin and wears red lipstick, with dark hair worn in long braids. She has her fingers interlaced in front of her waist, and is wearing a red, blue, and yellow multicolored top.
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Imara, what’s one of the things that means the most to you about leading our Board of Directors?
“The ability to help guide TLC as the organization’s impact and reach grow during this critical time in history. And as we push back, we also have to continue to build the world we want to live in. That’s the work, that’s the challenge right now.”
How do you disconnect when you need to?
“I read books all the time, but the main way is that I cook. I also like to watch shows and shade the characters out loud.”
What impact do you see Board service having on yourself and fellow members?
“Board service is a key way to build community. Everyone around the table is there as a volunteer. We all want to be there. Our common values and beliefs bind us. My essential role as Chair is to make sure that each one of [our Board members’] important perspectives is heard.”
If you were given free access to a billboard in your neighborhood, what message would you want to put up there?
“The Future is Black and Trans.”
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Imara Jones (she/her) is an award-winning journalist and creator of TransLash Media [[link removed]]. Imara was preceded as TLC Board Chair by Chinyere Ezie. Interviewed by Jessica Glennon Zukoff.
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Chinyere Ezie
2022 Vice Chair
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[Photo of Chinyere Ezie]
Image description: Chinyere in front of a mostly white background, with an abstract-style painting visible in the top-right corner. She is visible from the waist up, turned slightly to her right and smiling at the camera. She has dark brown skin, dark hair worn in an updo, with the sides of her head partially shaved, and wears a black blazer over an olive-green top or dress, with a gold necklace and gold earrings.
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Chinyere, how did you first connect with TLC?
“In 2014, I was a young lawyer looking to support the fight for trans liberation, and I had the privilege of co-counseling on one of TLC’s early employment discrimination cases, pre Bostock [v. Clayton County]. I’ve stayed involved with TLC ever since.”
How do you disconnect when you need to?
“Zoom fatigue is real. I’ve become a plant mama; plants really give me a lot of joy.”
What impact do you see Board service having on yourself and fellow members?
“It’s building a new generation of trans and queer leaders.”
If you were given free access to a billboard in your neighborhood, what would you want to put up there?
“Get Free.”
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Chinyere (she/her) is Senior Staff Attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights.
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Ana Conner
2022 Secretary
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[Photo of Ana Conner]
Image description: Ana in front of a brick wall background, looking at the camera and smiling slightly, visible from the elbows up, turned slightly to their right. They have medium brown skin and shoulder-length dark, curly hair, parted on their left. They are wearing a navy-blue blazer over a button-down collared shirt with a floral pattern in pinks, greens, and blues, and with a silver collar chain.
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Ana, how did you first connect with TLC?
“I worked and organized alongside folks in the TLC community over the years, and I met [Executive Director] Kris when I was a youth organizer with FIERCE [in NYC].”
How do you disconnect when you need to?
“I’m an avid camper, so by getting out of NYC and into the woods. I also really enjoy solo fishing adventures—I like going alone because it's rare that I actually catch a fish.”
What impact do you see Board service having on yourself and fellow TGNC leaders?
“TLC has created a space for me to learn how to be a useful board member—to learn from some of the most brilliant people—while also acknowledging the expertise that I bring as an organizer, fundraiser, and co-director in philanthropy.”
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Ana (they/them & she/her) is Co-Director at the Third Wave Fund.
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cori schmanke parrish
2022 Treasurer
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[Photo of cori schmanke parrish]
Image description: cori in front of a light gray background, facing the camera and smiling, visible from the shoulders up. cori is white and wears glasses with dark brown rectangular frames, a deep-red sweater over a dark brown collared shirt, and has short, red hair, mostly under a dark brown flat-cap hat.
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cori, what impact do you see Board service having on yourself and fellow members?
“TLC is a place where I can connect to a community of people committed to trans liberation and racial justice. I appreciate being able to contribute the skills I have to an organization whose values are so aligned with my own. And as someone whose activism and professional work have been deeply place-based in New York City and New York State for the last 15 years, it’s been really powerful to broaden my perspective helping to lead TLC as an organization with national scope."
How do you disconnect when you need to?
“I love singing and karaoke!”
If you were given free access to a billboard in your neighborhood, what message would you want to put up there?
“Solidarity is an everyday practice.”
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cori is Deputy Director at the Advocacy Institute in New York City.
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2022 Board of Directors
Sunu Chandy
Ana Conner
Morgan Darby
Brielle Darynn
Mat dos Santos
Chinyere Ezie
Ebony Harper
Imara Jones
Myles Paisley
Louis Porter II, EdD
Beckham Rivera
cori schmanke parrish
Alic Shook
Theresa Witherspoon
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Ex-Officio Members
Alan Francisco-Tipgos
Min Matson
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