Network Steering Committee Member Trudie Jackson:

Echo Magazine’s Woman of the Year! 

Congratulations Trudie!!!

 

 

 

We were so happy to hear that our very own Steering Committee member, Trudie Jackson, has been chosen as Echo Magazine’s 2013 Woman of the Year for her work as an advocate for the trans community and for her many contributions to the wider LGBT community!

Trudie lives in Phoenix AZ, and works on a program dealing with health issues of urban Native Americans at Native Health, an agency that provides wellness services. Upon being hired i 2004, she helped to found an LGBT employee group, and from that point on has been unstoppable in her pursuit of making sure that Native American and Trans folks are represented in all health and equality conversations.

Among her many accomplishments, Trudie worked for two years as an outreach coordinator for LGBT Youth at the Southwest center for HIV/AIDS, was the recipient of the Phoenix Pride Scholarship Fund award three years in a row, worked as assistant director for a time of This Is HOW (an agency that provides services and housing to trans individuals), and was on the board for 1 Voice Community. And of course, she is one of The Network’s Steering Committee members! 

For the past three years Trudie has helped to organize the Southwest Rainbow Gathering, which she chaired in 2012 and Scout attended and spoke at!

2014 promises to be an awesome year for Trudie- she will be graduating from Arizona State University with a bachelor’s degree in public service and public policy, with a minor in American Indian studies and a certificate in LGBT studies,a nd she is thinking that politics may be on the horizon…

 

Congratulations Trudie! You are Amazing! 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Read the full article in Echo Magazine HERE!