Join the Health Emphasis Area for a brown bag lunch with our guest speaker Dr. Taymy Josefa Caso to discuss providing gender-affirming care to transgender and gender diverse patients!

Please email Dr. Lisa Christensen at lisa.christensen@alliant.edu with questions for our speaker!

To join via Zoom, contact salbright1@alliant.edu

About Dr. Caso:
Taymy Josefa Caso, Ph.D., (they/she) is an Assistant Professor in Educational Psychology at the University of Alberta and a lecturer at New York University and the University of Minnesota Medical School. Dr. Caso completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Transgender Health in the Institute for Sexual and Gender Health and maintains a research affiliation at the National Center for Gender Spectrum Health. They hold degrees in counseling and clinical psychology from New York University and Columbia University, Teachers College. Their research focuses on minority health disparities, intersectionality, identity-based marginalization within LGBTQ+ BIPOC communities, gender and sexual fluidity, and social determinants of health. Their advocacy work utilizes decolonizing pedagogy to deconstruct institutional and systemic barriers to equity and develop community-based interventions for underserved communities. They have been the recipient of several grants and awards, which recognize scholarship, service, advocacy, and activism that support and empower marginalized and underrepresented communities.