GEM Education

Rendering the Spectrum More Visible

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Transgender Day of Remembrance	From 2001 through 2015, GEM 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.
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.	Dr. Gordene MacKenzie is an award-winning feminist professor and gender activist dedicated to social and environmental justice. A native of Albuquerque, New Mexico, Dr. MacKenzie has taught and lectured wildly on sex and gender, media politics, popular culture, film, and women's studies, and has been formally recognized for her teaching, research, and service to the transgender community. In 2006 Dr. MacKenzie received the Trinity Award for people who have performed extraordinary acts of courage and love in service to the Transgender Community. She authored the visionary book "Transgender Nation," as well as articles, including "50 Billion Galaxies of Gender: Transgendering the Millennium," and, with Mary Marcel, "From Sensationalism to Education: Media Coverage of the Murder of US Transgender Women of Color 1995-2005" in Local Violence, Global Media: Feminist Analyses of Gendered Representations, edited by Lisa Cuklanz and Sujata Moorti, from Routledge. She is the former producer and co-host of GenderTalk Radio and GenderVision. She is also an associate professor and the director of the Women's and Gender Studies Program at Merrimack College in North Andover. More about Gordene
Nancy Nangeroni	Nancy Nangeroni serves as Board Secretary for the Transgender Resource Center of New Mexico. Prior to that she served as Chair of the Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition (2008 - 2014), during which time the organization led the successful passage of the statewide Transgender Equal Rights Act. She remains MTPC chair emeritus. An MIT-degreed engineer, she joined the trans community in 1990, transitioned in 1993, and became an award-winning advocate for transgender people, educating and raising the visibility of transgender victimization. She has partnered personally and in activism since 1998 with Gordene O. MacKenzie, author of Transgender Nation and former Chair of the Women's and Gender Studies department at Merrimack College. Nancy founded in 1995, and co-hosted with Gordene through 2006, GenderTalk, a weekly radio program about gender issues on WMBR-FM in Cambridge, MA, available at www.gendertalk.com. They have since co-produced GenderVision, an 11-part educational video program, along with several trans-themed shorts. More about Nancy