Gael Guevara     

Gael Guevara

Photo by Eman Rimawi  www.emanrimawi.com

Gael Gundin Guevara was born and raised in Panamá City, Panamá. Gael immigrated to the United States at the age of 19.  They graduated from The Ohio State University with a BA degree in Sociology and just graduated from Pratt Institute with an Associate Degree in illustration Spring of 09.  Gael is also a certified fitness professional.  Visit Gael's fitness blog at www.gaelguevara.blogspot.com 

 Gael is also a collective member and the Community Organizing Coordinator of the Sylvia Rivera Law Project, an organization that provides free legal services and community organizing support to low-income and people of color who are transgender, intersex, and gender non-conforming.  Gael is also an organizer with Transforming Justice, a national coalition that works to address the root causes of imprisonment, criminalization, and poverty in transgender and gender non-conforming communities.  Transforming Justice hopes to bring visibility and empowerment to the voices of trans and gender non-conforming people to build a stronger, all gender inclusive abolitionist movement and dismantle the prison industrial complex.