Wednesday, May 26th at 7 pm ET, join us for our online live show! Three LGBTQ+ storytellers will be sharing their true, personal stories about science! And we'll invite our audience to share their ten-word stories as well!

Jamie Banks is a PhD student in Classics at the CUNY Graduate Center, polyglot, and middle school teacher. They served as a college poetry slam team coach and wrote and performed a one-person show at the National Black Theater, among other artistic shenanigans. They use their upbringing with storytelling every day in the language classroom for fun and consolation and in regular life.

Larry Rosen is an instructor, director, and story coach with The Moth, proud to work regularly with individuals and diverse communities throughout the U.S and in selected cities worldwide. Larry has been performing, teaching, and directing storytelling, theater, improvisation, and sketch comedy for more than 25 years, through institutions including Second City, The People's Improv Theater, and The New York International Fringe Festival.

LaSaia Wade is an open Afro-Puerto Rican indigenous Trans Woman, founder of TNTJ Tennessee Trans Journey Project, and member of Chicago Trans Gender-Nonconforming Collective and the Trans Liberation Collective, and Director of Brave Space Alliance. Recently, she was honored at the Chicago LGBTQA Black History Recognitions ceremony and is the first Trans woman in Illinois history to be celebrated in Women's History month for the work she's doing, not limited to community organizing. Her role in organizing ranges between and beyond as a central organizer for the Trans Liberation Protest Chicago, the largest march for trans rights in Midwestern history. 
LaSaia graduated in 2012 with a Masters of Business Administration degree in Business Management from Murfreesboro Tennessee State University, has 10+ years of experience in organizing and advocacy work with black, indigenous, trans, and gender-nonconforming people around the world. Her role in organizing ranges between and beyond as a central organizer for the Trans Liberation Collective Chicago, the largest march for trans rights in Midwestern history, being a leader in Midwest Ballroom The International Legendary House of Prodigy.

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