Willy Wilkinson
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Willy Chang Wilkinson | |
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 Willy Wilkinson speaking at San Francisco Trans March 2015 | |
| Alma mater | University of California, Santa Cruz University of California, Berkeley |
| Occupations | Writer, public health consultant, LGBTQ activist |
| Website | Official website |
Willy Chаng Wilkinson is an American writer, public health consultant, LGBTQ activist, and longterm LGВТQ cultural competency trainer from California.[1][2]
As an expert in transgender issues, he has worked extensively with health care organizations, educational institutions, businesses and other entities on increasing access for LGВТQ populations.[2][3]
Wilkinson was born in San Mateo, California in the early 1960s. He was assigned female at birth and is the youngest of four children. His mother was Chinese from Hawaii. His father is of Scottish, English, and Irish descent.[1]
When Wilkinson was nine years old, he changed his name to Willy. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree (BA) in Women's Studies at University of California, Santa Cruz. He earned his Masters in Public Health (MPH) in Community Health Education from University of California, Berkeley.[4]
Honors and awards
- 2004: NLGJA: The Association of LGBTQ+ Journalists Excellence in Writing Award for his article in the San Francisco Chronicle about the social and political intersections of his parents' interracial marriage and his own same-sex marriage.[1][5]
- 2014: Transgender Law Center Claire Skiffington Vanguard Award (2014)[2][6]
- 2015: Keynote Speaker at UC Berkeley's Queer and Asian Conference [7]
- 2015: Asian Pacific Islander Queer Women and Trans Community (APIQWTC), Phoenix Award[8]
- 2016: Lambda Literary Award, transgender nonfiction, for his book Born on the Edge of Race and Gender: A Voice for Cultural Competency[9]