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Through the leadership ofImani Keith Henry, OD for the People (ODFTP) works with various Organizational Development
professionals based in New York City and through out the United States to provide innovative change management
services. Resumes and CVs of ODFTP Consultants are available upon request
Imani Keith Henry Curriculum Vitae – Condensed Version
Awards
2013Nia Award: Cesar Chavez/Clara HaleCommitmenttoCommunityOutreach,NYU - CMEP
2006CommunityServiceAward, Housing WorksInc.
2004OpenSocietyInstitute NYC CommunityFellowshipGrantee
2002-2004Artist In Residency,Brooklyn Arts Exchange
2001-2002SpaceGrantee,BrooklynArts Exchange
2001Champion,theAnnual Houseof Xavier “Glam Slam”byDef-Jam Poet, Emanuel Xavier
2001CommunityServiceAward, the Audre LordeProject
Featured Panelist/Guest Lecturer/Host
2015,Panelist, NewRepublic Talks,NewRepublic Magazine,NYC
2015,Keynote, HawleyLectureSeries,Drake University
2015,OpeningSpeaker,NewYork Renters Assembly, Rightto the City
2015,Speaker, BuildingAMovement:Against PoliceBrutality, TheNewBlackSchoolofTheNewSchoolUniversity.
2015,Panelist, DecolonizingandDecriminalizingTransGenres,Universityof Winnipeg
2015,Panelist, The MovementisRising,TheMuseumofImpact,Harlem,NYC
2015,Speaker, TheSilverSchoolof SocialWork Studentsof ColorCollective,NewYork University
2015,Panelist, MakingIt In Series,Center for Multicultural Education&Programs,NewYork University
2015,Panelist, MedgarEvers CollegePanelonthe BlackFreedom Movement,MedgarEvers College
2015,Panelist, BlackHistory Month,TheNewYork University Silver SchoolofSocialWork
2015Panelist, TheRoleofSocialMediainTransPeopleofColor(TPOC)Movement,GenderReel,NewYork University
2014,Panelist, TheFireThisTime:Ferguson&theFutureof Racein America,Centerfor Multicultural Education&Programs,NYU
2014Panelist, Brooklyn Transitions:PresentChangesofBrooklyn Neighborhoods,TheBrooklynPublic Library
2014Panelist, Outand DiscriminatedAgainst?LGBTQRightsinthe Workplace,AmericasSociety/Councilofthe Americas
2014Panelist, Re-EnvisioningRace ina‘Post-Racial’Era: NewApproachesinCriticalRace Theory, YaleLaw School
2014Panelist, BlackHistoryMonthSeries: You Don't KnowMyStory, Columbia SchoolofSocialWork
2014Presenter, IvyQ Conference,PrincetonUniversity
2013Panelist, Fifth Annual State of BlackWriters Symposium:Activism in the 21st Century, Essex CountyCollege,NJ
2013Moderator,QueerDreams,Non-ProfitBluesConference,DilemmasoftheNonprofit TraditioninLGBT Politics,NYC
2012Panelist, The Life & Legacy of Black Queer Literature Beyond the New Millennium, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, NYC
2012 Host, Transformation, W.O.W Café Theater, NYC
2011Guest Lecturer,EngagementStrategiesfor CommunityOrganizing,WagnerSchoolof Public Service,NYU
2010Panelist, Not inMy Backyard, Heterosexism andHomophobiainOurCommunities,PaceUniversity, NYC
2010Panelist, UNCG's21st Annual ConferenceonAfricanAmericanCultureandExperience(CACE)
2010Keynote Speaker,MidwestBisexual LesbianGayTransgenderAllyCollegeConference,Universityof Wisconsin-Madison
2009Keynote Speaker,ConferenceonRace,Class,GenderandEthnicity, University of NorthCarolinaSchoolofLaw
2008Panelist, GenderIdentityin the African-AmericanCommunity,CD Forum,Seattle, WA

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2008Lecturer,Out to LunchSeries,the University of Connecticut,Storrs, CT
2007PlenarySpeaker, TranslatingIdentityConference,Burlington,Vermont
2007Keynote Speaker,TheCapitalDistrictGayandLesbianCommunityCouncil CommunityAwards Dinner,Albany NY
2007PlenarySpeaker, UnitedStates SocialForum,LiberatingGender&SexualityfeaturingBetita Martinez, MiaMingus,Suzanne
Pharr, Loretta Ross, andAndrea Smith
2007Keynote Speaker,LesbianGayBisexualTransgender QueerAlliance,EasternOregonUniversity
2007Keynote Speaker,LGBTQAPrideWeek, University of Oregon
2007Keynote Speaker,Day of Silence,University of California,SantaCruz
2007Keynote Speaker,Pride Alliance,University of Maryland,CollegePark
2007Keynote Speaker,BuildingUnityConference,Madison,WI
2007Keynote Speaker,Trans Weekat Yale University
2006FeaturedPanelist,KoreanAmericansagainstWar andNeoliberalism (KAWAN) Delegation,Seoul,Korea
2006Panelist/Performer,MichelleTea’s RadarReadingfeaturing DorothyAllison, Kate Bornstein,and NaloHopkinson, National
QueerArts Festival, SanFrancisco,CA
2006Masterof Ceremonies,L-WordSeason4 Premiere,NYC
2006Keynote Speaker,Women’sMonthUniversity of Albany, SUNY
2006Keynote Speaker,12th Annual Alaska PrideConference
2005Host, Interactivist Info Exchange:Trans Politics,SocialChange,and JusticeConference
2005Keynote Speaker,TransformingFeminism Conference,SUNYNewPaltz
2005Speaker, EasternRegionalWomenofColor for EqualityConference,African Asian LatinaLesbianUnited
2004Keynote Speaker,Women’sMonth, MerrimackCollege,MA
2004Keynote Speaker,NationalArts Festival, Vassar College
2004Keynote Speaker,LGBT PrideMonth, Brown University, RI
2003Moderator,A Trans-NationalDialogue:TransgenderActivisminNewYork & LatinAmerica, Astraea LesbianFoundationfor
Justice,NYC
2003Keynote Speaker,NationalDayof Silence,RutgersUniversity, NewBrunswick,NJ
2002Speaker, NorthAtlantic TrainingInstitute for SexualHealthEducators Retreat, NY
2002Panelist, Barriersto Healthcarefor Transgenders,Bellevue Hospital,NYC
2000Speaker, Makingthe Links– LGBT Activists Responseafter 911,NYC
2000Speaker, NewYork City LGBT Kwanzaa Celebration
2000Keynote Speaker,QPOC(QueerPeopleof Color) Conference,SmithCollege,MA
2000Keynote Speaker,Trans/FormingGender:SagerSymposium,SwarthmoreCollege,PA
Contributing Writer/Essayist/Journalist
2014Advisor, TransBodies,TransSelves:A Resourceforthe TransgenderCommunity,Oxford University Press
2014QueerRevolution,Not MereInclusion,AgainstEqualityPublishingCollective
2012Prisons WillNot Protect You, Against Equality PublishingCollective
2011Trans/Love:RadicalSex,Love & RelationshipsBeyondthe GenderBinary, Manic DPress
2008LGBTQ America Today Encyclopedia,GreenwoodPress
2008Absent Cause,RedguardPress
2007Suspect Thoughts: A Journalof SubversiveWriting,Guest editedby EmanuelXavier
2007Voices Rising:Celebrating20Yearsof Black Lesbian,Gay, BisexualandTransgenderWriting,OtherCountriesPress
2007Marxism, Reparationsandthe Black Freedom Struggle,World View Forum Publishing
2004From the InsideOut: RadicalGenderTransformation,FTM andBeyond, Manic DPress
2003The War inColombia:Madein the USA, InternationalAction Center
1999RhapsodyMagazine
1997The EvergreenChronicles
1997VirginTerritory 2,edited by SharRednour,MasqueradeBooks
1996Does YourMama Know? Edited by LisaMoore,RedBone
1993-PresentWorkers WorldNewspaper
Select Press/Political Commentator
2013FeatureStory, “HeroEdition”, OriginalPlumbing Magazine,May2013

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2013-02FrequentOn-AirGuest, OUTFM–WBAI LGBT Show,PacificaRadio
2013-02On-Air Guest,on various WBAI Programming,PacificaRadio
2007-02On-Air Guest,Wake-Up Call –WBAI am NewsRadioShow, PacificaRadio
2007Left TurnMagazine,Featuredin coverstory, April/May 2007
2007-03femmenoir www.femmenoir.net
2006SF Bay Times
2006L.A. Theatre
2005-02GenderTalk–Syndicated RadioShow,
2005–03In the Life – PBS LGBT Newsmagazine
2004-03VelvetPark– Nationallesbianmagazine
2004The Advocate
2004The VillageVoice
2003National PacificaRadio,FeaturedInterviewsonvarious syndicatedprograms
2003The Boston Globe – Reviewof B4T, “Actor keepsedgy playwellcentered”
2003Sable– www.sablemagazine.com