V Varun Chaudhry
Grantmaking Meeting Zoom ConductorV Varun Chaudhry, PhD, is a brown trans boi with all kinds of feelings, which, thanks to the Lorde (Audre Lorde, that is), he believes are “our most genuine paths to knowledge.” V is currently on faculty in the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies department at Brandeis University, where he teaches courses in queer and transgender studies. V has published on the racial politics of trans organizing, specifically the relationship between black feminism and transgender studies, and on trans inclusion and affirmation efforts in organizations. V is the primary author of Transforming Inclusion: An Organizational Guide, published by the Leeway Foundation in 2018. V lives outside of Boston, MA, with his family.
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