Staff

Rachel Crandall, MSW, Co-founder (1997), Director, Executive Director of TransGender Michigan, Transgender Advocate Trainer, "notorious rabble rouser", Prism award winner, Founder of Michigan LGBT Disability Coalition,  Board member for Michigan Equality, Faculty Adjunct MSU School of Social Work, & Transgender therapist.

Phone Number: (517)-420-1544

Cj Tune Director since 2001, Chairperson of TransGender Michigan, FTM Coordinator, Speakers Bureau Coordinator. Full-time pin-cushion and hardcore advocate for genderqueer and FTM inclusion.

Website: The Wonderful World of Cj

Advisory Council

Samantha Stephens-Divinity, Director 2001-2003 and councilperson since 2003.  Mother of the House of Divinity, House of Divinity, 680 Delaware St #A1, Detroit, MI 48202, 313-875-2292

and Entertainer Extraordinaire. 

Jay Kaplan, Director 2002-2004, and councilperson since 2004.  Staff Attorney for ACLU of Michigan's GLBT Legal Project, member of the Board for Michigan AIDS Fund.  Worked as staff attorney for Michigan Protection and Advocacy Service for 13 years- founded HIV/AIDS Legal Advocacy Program there.  Worked for legal services, specializing in housing law.  Graduate of Wayne State Law School. 

Mel McClure, Councilperson since 2003. Intersex educator, student at Lansing Community College, active in the lgbTI community including volunteering at the LAHR hotline.  "As an intersexed individual I am trying to educate others on what intersex is and what it means to me." 

Billie H. Henning, Councilperson since 2004.  Retired from Macomb Community College after 39 years of teaching speech and broadcasting. Co-author of six books and various articles on local transportation. Founding member of the Michigan Transit Museum

TransGender Michigan is a 501(c)(3) Michigan nonprofit organization. The services we provide would not be possible without the support of people like you.

Vanessa Lynne

Board member since 2007.

Steph Turner

Board member since 2007. Volunteer Coordinator of TransGender Michigan. Affirmations Multicultural Advisory Committee member. Recent graduate of Oakland University, with high honors, majoring in Sociology/Anthropology. Jen Durr Services founder & executive director, addressing needs of incarcerated trans and gender variant. Trans Spirituality editor, quarterly zine published by Jen Durr Services for incarcerated trans/gv and their allies. Coordinator of www.transinjustice.org web project. Program Director of the TransAction Program (TAP), aiming to develop a post-release program for transgender ex-prisoners.  Member of Transforming Justice Coalition (www.transformingjustice.org). Overcoming hir own story of tragic injustice, published in Transgender Tapestry #097, Spring 2002 (http://www.ifge.org/Article111.phtml).