Grants & Investments

I engage in angel investing in social-benefit-focused, for-profit startups, and do targeted grant-making to enable non-profits to scale. My areas of competency and focus are on problems faced by transgender people (especially trans people of color), including policy work, impact litigation, poverty alleviation, violence prevention, suicide prevention, and addressing online/offline harassment.

Non-Profit Grantees

• National Center for Transgender Equality (also a 2018-2020 board member)

• Coworker Solidarity Fund (founder, board chair)

• Lambda Legal

• AIDS Action Committee of Massachusetts (Youth on Fire) - story

• Trans Lifeline

• Transgender Law Center

• Brooklyn Bail Fund

• Black and Brown Founders

• Native Women Lead

• Zebras Unite

• Paladin (fiscally sponsored by Black and Brown Founders)

• Effing Foundation for Sex-Positivity

• Alliance for Safe Traffic Stops

For-Profit Seed Investments

• Backstage Studio

• Tall Poppy (also a board member)

• Career Karma

• MyWellbeing

• Posture Media

• Ethel’s Club

• Appolition

• Astral AR