Christopher Barnhart has served as the Health Science Policy Analyst for the NIH Sexual & Gender Minority Research Office for a year and is an Executive Board member for the Salutaris Employee Research Group. At the SGMRO, Christopher helps to support and advance sexual and gender minority-related research and activities across the NIH with the ultimate goal of improving the health and well-being of all sexual and gender minority populations. He is proud to be a public servant at the NIH and to be able to work toward health equity and fair representation for sexual and gender minorities.

Greg Bautista is a past president of GLOBE, the association of LGBTQ+ colleagues and allies at CDC/ATSDR. As a health scientist in the Office of Health Equity of CDC's National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention, he advances research on social determinants of health and strategies for mitigating health disparities. He was one of several CDC GLOBE members who spearheaded efforts to create a training at CDC modeled upon the NIH Safe Zone program.

Tommy Berry joined the NIH community in December 2019 as a Management Analyst at the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders. His focus is on employee engagement, emergency management, and a broad range of other policy and technical areas. Prior to joining the NIDCD, Tommy worked at the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission (M-NCPPC) managing Montgomery County risk assessment, volunteer, and education programs, as well as the Trees Matter Symposium, an industry conference for the Mid-Atlantic region. He is excited to bring his diverse background and experience to this new role and build relationships across the NIH community.

Michelle Boyle is the Special Assistant to Director/Deputy Director, NIH Office of Budget. Since joining NIH in 2007, Michelle has supported increased public awareness of SGM health issues through leveraging her budget expertise. Personal interest as a transgender female led to spearheading development of RCDC’s SGM category in 2015 to track NIH’s LGBTQ focused research funding for display on the NIH RePORT website. She has also contributed to internal efforts to advance SGM issues via participation in PRIDE events and EDI hosted workshops.

Ed Dorsey serves as the Training Manager for the Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion where he leads the training program that brings awareness to various EEO matters and fosters greater understanding about diversity and inclusion. Prior to NIH Ed worked for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). While at CMS he was a special emphasis program manager and managed the Hispanic, Veterans, and Lesbian, Gay, Bi-sexual, Transgender, and Intersex programs. Ed also lead their training cadre, where he was responsible for conducting New Employee Orientations and is a certified ELI - Civil Treatment for Leaders and Employees trainer.

DeLesslin George-Warren is a queer artist, researcher, and organizer from Catawba Indian Nation whose work ranges from performance to installation art to community education to food sovereignty to language revitalization. DeLesslin's work in his community addresses health through the development of cultural resiliency and pride while recalling traditional teachings that 'food is our first medicine' and that our health is integrally tied with the health of our landscapes.

Justin Hentges is the Chief Financial and Management Officer and Acting Chief Engagement Officer for the All of Us Research Program,and is the current chair of Salutaris. Justin has been involved in SGM issues since starting at NIH in 2007 including work with Salutaris, the SGM Research Coordinating Committee, & the HHS LGBT Policy Coordinating Committee. He’s proud of the work that NIH has done to ensure that SGM communities and individuals are included as partners in the research enterprise.

Elliot Kennedy is the Director of the Office of Policy Analysis and Development in the Administration for Community Living. He has served as staff for the HHS LGBT Coordinating Committee since 2014. Elliot joined HHS in 2014 as a Special Expert for LGBT Affairs at SAMHSA. In that role, he spearheaded publication of the first federal report on ending conversion therapy. After leaving SAMHSA, Elliot joined OASH as the first Senior Advisor for LGBT Health at HHS.

Maddie Lydon is the Safety Officer at the NIH’s Central Utility Plant since 2018 and begun transitioning on the job in 2019. Since coming aboard, she’s been a vocal advocate for worker’s wellbeing. When she’s not at work, Maddie spends time with her family and trying to perfect her chili recipe.

Brandon McCullough is currently a Talent Analyst with the Office of Talent Solutions, Scientific Talent and Recruitment Staff (STRS) hiring pilot at the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Brandon’s work allows him to partner with FDA senior leadership to improve hiring strategies and policies for the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research and the Center for Drug Evaluation Research. Brandon holds a BS in Elementary Education from Morgan State University and a MPA from The University of Michigan.

Mahri Monson works at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in the Office of General Counsel. She started with the EPA in 2008 as a Presidential Management Fellow and has worked in EPA’s Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance, the Pacific Islands Office in EPA Region 9 (San Francisco), EPA’s Office of Water, and the White House Council on Environmental Quality. Mahri served as the Vice-Chair of EPA's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Advisory Council and over the past 8 years, she has advocated for LGBTQ+ workplace equality and inclusion, including championing EPA’s transgender and gender non-conforming employment policy and leading a pilot for EPA to gather voluntary, self-disclosed sexual orientation and gender identity workforce data in order to increase and improve tools for assessing equal employment opportunity and diversity and inclusion efforts at EPA.

Gary M. Morin works in the National Institute of Health's National Cancer Institute's (NCI) Office of Communications and Public Liaison (OCPL) as the Section 508 Coordinator and EIT/ICT accessibility consultant. His daily duties have included helping the NCI make their documents, websites, software, multimedia, and social media more accessible for NIH employees and members of the public; working with staff involved in acquisitions and contracting to ensure that Section 508 and accessible ICT language is written into acquisition documents to ensure the delivery of accessible ICT.

Shyam Patel is the Communications Expert for the Sexual and Gender Minority Research Office at the NIH. Previously, Shyam served as the Senior Communications & Education Associate at GLMA: Health Professionals Advancing LGBTQ Equality, a national organization committed to ensuring health equity for SGM individuals. His work primarily involved managing GLMA's education initiatives promoting SGM health research, as well as directing organizational advocacy efforts that sought to advance equitable health policy. During his time at GLMA, he served as a board member on the PRIDEnet Participant Advisory Board, assisting with the development of initiatives and activities to best engage SGM individuals in both the PRIDE Study and the All of Us Research Program.

Karin Peterson, Ph.D., is the chief of the Neuroimmunology Section at Rocky Mountain Laboratories (RML), where she studies how viruses gain access to the central nervous system and cause neurological disease. She is also an active member of the Diversity and Inclusiveness group at RML, which promotes the importance of diversity in science.

Jenn Pumphrey serves as the Brand Manager for the Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion. Upon the completion of master’s coursework in Cultural and Educational Policy Studies at Loyola University Chicago, Jenn relocated to San Diego, CA where she led business development and brand marketing in digital media, fintech, and the mortgage industry. Throughout her career, Jenn has positioned herself as a diversity specialist helping to establish brand marketing strategies that represent multicultural perspectives and elevate the voices of cultural minorities in vital national industries. Jenn joined NIH in Fall 2019, and looks forward finding opportunities for EDI’s brand to shine.

Jonathan Schulz has worked in the Virus Ecology Unit at the Rocky Mountain Labs (RML) for 3 years. Currently he is laboratory technician where he manages daily activities. Jonathan is also passionate about diversity and inclusivity awareness in his community. Now, he's a leader on the RML diversity and inclusiveness subcommittee.

Julia Serano is an Oakland, California-based writer, performer, biologist, and activist. She is the author of four books, including Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity, which readers of Ms. Magazine ranked #16 on their list of the “100 Best Non-Fiction Books of All Time.” Julia’s life experiences as a trans woman, and her understanding of biology (she has a PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics from Columbia University, and spent seventeen years as a researcher at UC Berkeley in the fields of genetics, evolution and developmental biology), gives her a unique perspective on gender and sexuality, and her writings have been used as teaching materials in colleges across North America.

Meghan Walter is an Environmental Engineer with USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service and the President of Equality USDA, the employee resource group for LGBTQ+ employees and retirees at USDA. Building welcoming federal workplaces is a cornerstone of Meghan’s 15 year career in public service, as she has organized and delivered dozens of trainings and written extensively on sexual orientation and gender identity nondiscrimination. She was instrumental in developing and implementing USDA’s LGBTQ+ Special Emphasis Program, where she created strategies to outreach to LGBTQ+ communities in rural areas, and is the founding Chair of Pride in Federal Service, a network of LGBTQ+ employees from more than 50 federal agencies who work together to advance policies, metrics, and professional development opportunities that support LGBTQ+ federal employees and their families.

Dr. Clare Waterman is a NIH NHLBI Distinguished Investigator, and member of the National Academy of Sciences. Prior to joining the NHLBI, she spent 9 years as a professor in the Department of Cell Biology at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, CA. Dr. Dr. Waterman has made fundamental advances in the understanding of cytoskeletal interactions and has authored or coauthored more than 130 papers. She currently serves on the editorial boards of Current Biology and Journal of Microscopy. Dr. Waterman is a member of the American Society for Cell Biology, Royal Microscopical Society, Biophysical Society, and is a Council Member of Gordon Research Conferences Organization.

Jessica Xavier retired in 2018 after serving for more than ten years as a Health Scientist in the Special Projects of National Significance program of the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program of the Health Resources and Services Administration. Prior to her government service, she conducted two large needs assessment surveys of the transgender populations of Virginia and the District of Columbia. She has been working in transgender health for 22 years and in the HIV epidemic since 1984.