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This TAQ explores the intersecting impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and domestic violence on trans and non-binary individuals and communities, offering strategies to promote inclusive, culturally responsive, and affirming services.

After an extensive search process to find a leader who embodies proven leadership, a commitment to centering the voices of survivors and values the importance of amplifying the needs of marginalized communities, NRCDV excited to welcome our new CEO, Ms. Pamela Jacobs, J.D.  

"We're meeting to address this historic pandemic of violence, of missing and murdered relatives across this nation and across any nation that was colonized by non-Indigenous people," Kunesh said.

“Black LGBTQ+ youth face compounding challenges and have unique experiences because they exist at the intersection of multiple marginalized identities,” HRC wrote in the executive summary of its report.

The paper included a decade’s worth of data from the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention among Black women ages 25 to 44 across 30 states.

"Results from the largest survey of transgender people in the United States were released Wednesday, revealing key insights into their lives and experiences at a time when trans rights have increasingly come under attack."