Mallery Jenna Robinson
BA
Transgender Advocate of Los Angeles
Mallery Jenna Robinson
Mallery Jenna Robinson (she/her) is an Associate Program Director at Equality California. She is an AfraCarribean Binary Transgender woman as well as a Transgender and HIV healthcare advocate for Los Angeles and the State of California. She brings a wealth of experience in education, training and advocacy work specific to transgender and gender nonbinary/non conforming people. Her first role into advocacy began as the Engagement Specialist and Service Navigator for the Transgender Health Program where she focused on case management of clients including: linkages to care, PrEP and PEP services, STI screening, and HIV testing. Mallery also managed several successful programs providing clothing, food, and essential delivery services supporting the trans community. She proudly organized events to create safe spaces for the trans community, including Come OUT and Pose, ValenTrans Day, and the T-Report Red Desk Diaries panel discussion dedicated to National Transgender HIV Testing Day.
Previous to this work, Mallery spent five years as a middle school teacher in Florida, teaching science and history to eighth graders. Mallery is the creator of A Hateful Homicide, a true crime and investigative journalism podcast covering hate crimes/violence of the transgender, gender non-binary/nonconforming, intersex, and two spirit community members. Mallery received her Bachelor's of Arts in Biology and History Education at Huntingdon College in Montgomery, Alabama and is currently working on her Masters of Social Work at the
California State University of Los Angeles.
SESSION OVERVIEW
Transgender Empathy Training
With over 38 million residents (12 percent of the US population), the State of California is the most populous state in the nation and has the third largest land area among the states (163,695 square miles). California is culturally, ethnically, economically, ecologically, and politically diverse, and maintains the eighth largest economy in the world with 13 percent of the U.S. gross domestic product. California also faces numerous risks and threats to our people, property, economy, environment and is prone to earthquakes, and a growing increase of climate change-driven flooding, significant wildfires, prolonged drought, public health emergencies, and, agricultural and animal disasters. Equality California Institute is working in partnership with Cal OES (the California Office of Emergency services) to support LGBTQ+ people in taking a proactive approach to disaster and emergency preparedness.
This presentation will share a youth and LGBTQ+ centered approach to five steps that every person can take for emergency preparedness and will create opportunities for audience members to discuss the concerns and priorities of their communities, when it comes to climate change-driven natural disasters such as: earthquakes.