GEM Education

Rendering the Spectrum More Visible

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Transgender Day of Remembrance	Each year since 2001, GEM has sponsored the Boston Transgender Day of Remembrance, providing fiscal support and management expertise. With the collaboration of the Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition, Boston's TDOR event has grown in participation and meaning. GEM will continue to provide key management and fiscal stewardship for this important event, while welcoming collaboration from other transgender-oriented organizations.
Education Work	GEM's principals, Gordene O. MacKenzie, PhD., and Nancy Nangeroni, are known worldwide as experienced lecturers with extensive knowledge of gender issues. Both are available for lectures and workshops.
Gordene O. MacKenzie, PhD.	Gordene O. MacKenzie, PhD., is the director of Women's Studies at Merrimack College in North Andover, MA. She is a long-time researcher of transgender issues, and authored the groundbreaking book "Transgender Nation", which earned her widespread respect and has been used as a reference by educators, activists and lawyers since its publication in 1994. Gordene is an award-winning feminist educator and gender activist dedicated to social and environmental justice. She co-produces and co-hosts GenderTalk radio, bringing increased depth of experience and knowledge to the program. She founded the first transgender and cross-dresser support group in Albuquerque in 1985 and co-directed the group and ran the TG help phone line for over seven years. In 1997, while serving as an assistant professor of Women's Studies, Gordene developed and taught the first transgender studies course offered at the University of New Mexico. She has been a visiting scholar at the University of Wyoming, an adjunct professor at Antioch University, a freelance editor, poet, hypnotherapist, and co-owner (and designer) of a jewelry business in Albuquerque for over 20 years.
Nancy Nangeroni	Nancy Nangeroni is a transgender community advocate, activist and founder of GenderTalk radio, a spoken forum for gender and transgender issues. Nancy was a leading activist in the generation of a viable transgender movement, and is the person who issued the call in 1995 for a nationwide series of protests at the site of anti-transgender violence. She served as the Executive Director for the International Foundation for Gender Education, rescuing that organization from pending bankruptcy and revitalizing it's publication, Transgender Tapestry, once the leading periodical on transgender issues. She has delivered countless lectures on transgenderism, including pivotal presentations to the boards of Gay & Lesbian Advocates and Defenders (GLAD), the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), and the GLB division of the American Psychiatric Association, all of which helped redefine the goals and policies of these organizations with respect to gender issues and transgender persons.