TransActive Gender Project’s New Leader

Credit: Hayes YoungHayes Young, who has 20 years of advocacy experience in their home states of Mississippi and Oregon, is the new program director of the TransActive Gender Project at the Graduate School of Education and Counseling. TransActive provides a holistic range of services and expertise to help empower transgender and gender-expansive children, youth, and their families in living healthy lives free of discrimination.

Young attended college in Jackson, Mississippi, where they were educated as a historian and cofounded multiple LGBTQIA+ organizations. Since then, Young has worked to support youth-serving organizations across the country and break new policy ground with service organizations across the Pacific Northwest.