About the Author

Vann Jones is a transgender political analyst, community organizer, educator, and caretaker, born and raised in the East Bay Area on the aboriginal lands of the Muwekma Ohlone People. Vann got his start in working towards community care at the age of 12 when he became heavily involved in the Castro Valley Unified School District, where he attended from K-12, fighting for LGBTQ+ inclusion and education at every grade level. He is proudly a first-generation college student, having graduated from the University of California, Santa Cruz with highest honors in Feminist Studies and the History of Art & Visual Culture. During his time in undergrad, he published and presented his own award-winning research and educational website on transmasculine reproduction which has become a staple in transgender health care across the UC system. His research is now permanently preserved by the GLBT Historical Society in San Francisco. He has collaborated with a plethora of renowned organizations and activists both while still in college and after graduating. Vann has experience working both at the California State Capitol in Sacramento as a legislative intern and on The Hill in Washington, D.C. as a policy & field intern for the National LGBTQ+ Task Force and a journalism intern for internationally acclaimed reporter Erin Reed. Throughout his life, he has worked with and lobbied at every level of government in order to help pass progressive legislation on a wide variety of intersectional issues in order to protect our most vulnerable. He is now studying to become a lawyer at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law. 

Learn more about Vann at vannjones.com