Willy Wilkinson, MPH is an award-winning writer, public health consultant, cultural competency trainer, public speaker, and spoken word performer. He is the author of the Lambda Literary Award-winning book Born on the Edge of Race and Gender: A Voice for Cultural Competency, which illuminates trans experience from a Chinese American and mixed heritage perspective, and transforms the memoir genre into a cultural competency tool. He has written for numerous periodicals, such as the San Francisco Chronicle and Asian Week, numerous anthologies, including The Very Inside, Transgender Rights, and Trans Bodies, Trans Selves, and journals such as Transgender Studies Quarterly. The Lambda Literary Review has described his writing as “highly evocative.” Willy is the recipient of a National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association excellence in writing award, and the Transgender Law Center Vanguard Award, and is recognized on the Trans 100.
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