Areas of expertise: Health and mental health, gender identity and gender-affirming healthcare, diversity, trauma, cross-cultural communication, harm reduction, healthcare navigation, social justice
Bio: Sara is a Health Educator, Support Group facilitator, Boston Healthcare For the Homeless Board and Consumer Board Member, writer, a proud parent of two grown children and grandmother of four. She identifies as a woman of transgender experience. Sara speaks and does trainings on transgender issues, including teaching medical and behavioral health providers how to provide gender-affirming healthcare. Sara decided to become part of the solution from the beginning of her transition two decades ago. Outside of work Sara is a self trained botanist, forager of wild plants and fungi, and loves ancient history and experimental archaeology. She sews her own clothes, and writes a blog on Facebook covering topics of interest to her with an emphasis on disseminating information among leaders of the Transgender Community.
Experience:
- Trainings and workshops facilitator at USPATH National Symposium, including a panel discussion on evolution of transgendered healthcare at Boston Healthcare for the Homeless, 2017
- Co-facilitator of Roundtable Session at AHA’s Advancing Health Equity Conference , 2021
- Presenter on Technical Assistance webinar hosted by Center for Health Care Strategies for Rhode Island’s Accountable Entities Program, 2022
- Health Educator -TransCEND- Cambridge Cares About AIDS, 2012-2015
- Co-chair of National Center for Complex Health and Social Needs’ Core Competency Working Group, 2019-present
- National Consumer Scholar, 2019-2020
- Member of Boston Medical Center Transgender Taskforce, 2016-2018
- She has trained large groups of medical professionals and has served as a community member advisor for expanded gender-affirming primary healthcare. Boston Healthcare for the Homeless and Boston Medical Center
- Consumer Advisory Board member, Boston Healthcare for the Homeless, 2012-present
- Member of Board of Directors for Boston Healthcare for the Homeless, 2015-present
- Member of “BAChome” Mayor’s Community Advisory Council on Homelessness, 2018-present