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My name is Nala.

With a background in grassroots activism and community building, I work with organizations to spark impactful change through policy, activism, and education. Through shared humanity, I challenge notions of inclusivity and diversity to expand gender, racial, and economic equity an the corporate and executive level.

Nala Toussaint works with women across the spectrum of identities, social and economic realities to support their health goals and well-being. She has done extensive work as an outreach liaison, conducting safe sex interventions for youth, and coordinating educational and job development services at renowned LGBT public service organizations.

Nala is currently the TGNB Health Advocacy Coordinator at Callen-Lorde Community Health Center. She engages and mobilizes transgender and gender non-binary (TGNB) patients and their allies - as well as external community members - to advocate for policies that expand access to gender-affirming health care and services.

In 2015, she served as the Co-Chair for the Young Women Advisory Council under the administration of Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito & New York City Council. Nala has lead and brought many differently-identified young girls to the table to contribute to the launch of #SheWillBe campaign. As a result of her passion and leadership, she continued her work as the co-program coordinator at Girls for Gender Equity until Aug 2018, where she co-facilitated groups that created spaces for young cisgender and transgender girls, and gender non-conforming individuals between the ages 13-24 to be uplifted through kinship while learning about government policy, media, and philanthropy.

In addition, she is the founder of Reuniting of African Descendants (R.O.A.D). R.O.A.D is a trans-led grassroots initiative invested in equity, collective growth, and healing for TLGBQIA+/SGL people of African Descent. ROAD work is rooted in ending genocide against Queer and Trans people of African Descendants.