Celebrating Pride Month 2022

Dr. Jason Nagata is an adolescent health specialist and Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the University of California, San Francisco who specializes in treating young people suffering with eating disorders. In particular, Dr. Nagata's research focuses on the prevalence of eating disorders among boys and men, and the LGBTQ+ community, who are often underrepresented in such studies. His work is dedicated to examining the health consequences of adolescent behavior with the goal of preventing diseases in adulthood.

Karine Jean-Pierre is the current White House press secretary, the first Black person and first LGBTQ+ person to hold the role. A longtime political strategist, Jean-Pierre also worked in the Obama administration's White House Office of Political Affairs and played a crucial role in President Obama's 2012 reelection campaign, directing political strategy in the battleground states. Jean-Pierre is an advocate for greater LGBTQ+ representation in politics and her book, Moving Forward, chronicles her own experiences from growing up in New York's Haitian community to becoming a powerful changemaker in the nation's capital.

Meredith Talusan is a Filipino-American author, journalist and visual artist whose work defies typical conventions of genre in favor of hybrid forms. Talusan is the author of the critically-acclaimed memoir Fairest from Viking/Penguin Random House, a Lambda Literary Award Finalist and best book of 2020 from multiple venues, including O: The Oprah Magazine, Marie-Claire, Electric Literature, and Library Journal. Fairest is a coming-of-age story, charting Talusan's path immigrating to the U.S. from the Philippines, as well as her gender transition, highlighting the beauty that comes from embracing our individual journeys. She is also the founding executive editor of them., Condé Nast's LGBTQ+ digital platform.