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Name
  
Willy Wilkinson


Role
  
Writer

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Website
  
http://www.willywilkinson.com/

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Willy Snow Wilkinson is an American writer, public health consultant, and LGBTQ activist from California.

Contents

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As an expert in transgender issues, he has worked extensively with health care organizations, educational institutions, businesses and other entities on increasing access for LGBT populations.

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Early life and education

Wilkinson was born in San Mateo, California in the early 1960s. He was born female and is the youngest of four children. His father is of Scottish, English, and Irish descent. His mother is Chinese from Hawaii.

When Willy was nine years old, he changed his name to Willy. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree (BA) in Women's Studies at University of California, Santa Cruz. He earned his Masters in Public Health (MPH) in Community Health Education from University of California, Berkeley.

Honors and awards

  • 2004: National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association Excellence in Writing Award for his article in the San Francisco Chronicle about the social and political intersections of his parents' interracial marriage and his own same-sex marriage.
  • 2014: Transgender Law Center Claire Skiffington Vanguard Award (2014)
  • 2015: Keynote Speaker at UC Berkeley's Queer and Asian Conference
  • 2015: Asian Pacific Islander Queer Women and Trans Community (APIQWTC), Phoenix Award

    • Published work

  • Wilkinson, W. (2006). Public health gains of the transgender community in San Francisco: Grassroots organizing and community-based research. In P. Currah, R. Juang, & S. Minter (Eds.), Transgender rights (pp. 192–214), Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. [Lambda Literary Award Finalist]
  • Wilkinson, W. (2015). Born on the Edge of Race and Gender: A Voice for Cultural Competency.
  • Global perspective on transgender cultural competency in the inaugural edition of Transgender Studies Quarterly,
  • Trans Bodies, Trans Selves (2014) explores the intersections between mixed heritage and trans experience
  • Manning Up: Transsexual Men on Finding Brotherhood, Family and Themselves addresses racism, Asian female subjugation, and transgender expression, and was described as “highly evocative” by the Lambda Literary Review.
  • Wilkinson, W. (Fall 2015) Willy Wilkinson's memoir, Born on the Edge of Race and Gender: A Voice for Cultural Competency will highlight his intersectional experiences of race, gender, sexuality, disability, class, and parenthood with reflections from cultural competency, public health, and political advocacy.

    • Personal life

    Wilkinson lives in Oakland, California with his three children.

    References

    Willy Wilkinson Wikipedia
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