Biography:
Kim Pearson
Executive Director, Educator, Public Speaker, and Media Consultant

Kim Pearson first directed her energy into GLBT support, advocacy and education as the founder and president of her local PFLAG Chapter when the youngest of her three children came out as lesbian in 2005. Eighteen months later she found herself facilitating that same child's transition to living life as a young man. Her journey led her to become the co-founder and executive director of the only National non-profit which educates and advocates exclusively for gender variant and transgender children and their families...TransYouth Family Allies.

Professional Affiliations:
Executive Director/Co-Founder,
TransYouth Family Allies (TYFA) the first and only national organization that supports, educates and advocates exclusively for gender variant and transgender children and their families.
National Board President, PFLAG-Transgender Network
President/Co-Founder PFLAG, Lake Havasu City
Board Member, River Rainbow Pride

Educational Presentations and Public Speaking Engagements:

2010
PFLAG Sacramento, Featured Speaker
Miami Medical Symposium, panel with parents and Dr. Marcie Bower
First Annual New Mexico Transgender Summit, Keynote
Transgender Leadership Summit, Family Workshop Facilitator
Philadelphia TransHealth Conference, Medical-Dr. Olson/Kim
Pearson/Moonhawk River Stone, MS, LMHC, Legal-Asaf Orr, Esq./Kim Pearson, Family, Children, and Media Workshop Co-facilitator
TransForm New Hampshire, Keynote and Workshop Facilitator
TransOhio, Transgender and Ally Symposium, Legal, medical and family workshop facilitator
Models of Pride, parent and youth workshops co-facilitator
TransForm Arizona, workshop facilitator
PFLAG Pacific North West Regional Conference, keynote and workshop facilitator
TransForm Florida, workshop facilitator

2009
International Federation for Gender Education Conference, Dr. Edgardo Menvielle/Kim Pearson co-facilitators, Lisa Gillinger, Esq./Kim Pearson co-facilitators
Kansas Association of Community Mental Health Providers Conference, workshop facilitator
Colorado Gold Rush Conference, Keynote and workshop facilitator
National Social Workers Conference, MI, Kim Pearson/Shannon Garcia/Andre Wilson co-facilitators
Philadelphia TransHealth Conference, PA multiple workshops, facilitator
Gay and Lesbian Medical Association Annual Conference, Washington DC, Dr. Norman Spack/Moonhawk River Stone MS, LMHC/Kim Pearson co-presenters
1n10 GLBTQ Youth Camp, Prescott, AZ, Youth gender workshop facilitator
TransForm Arizona Conference, Keynote and workshop facilitator

2008
International Federation for Gender Education Conference, Dr. Edgardo Menvielle/Moonhawk River Stone MS, LMHC/Kim Pearson workshop co-presenters, Lisa Gillinger, Esq./Kim Pearson, co-facilitators.
Philadelphia TransHealth Conference, Multiple workshops facilitator
Ivy Tech University, Transyouth for Helping Professions, Presenter
Models of Pride Conference, Youth gender workshop, Lisa Gillinger, Esq./Betsy Hanger/Kim Pearson Co-facilitators
Goldman Sachs, Transgender Diversity Training, panel presentation
Ball State University, Gender Variant Youth workshop facilitator for helping professions
Gender Odyssey Conference, multiple workshops, co-presenter
Out Youth, Austin, TX, Youth workshop, Shawn and Kim Pearson co-presenters
University of TX, Austin, Accommodations for Gender Variant University Students, presenter
True Colors GLBT Youth Conference, CT “Development of Gender Variance and   Sexuality in Children,” Dr. Edgardo Menvielle/Moonhawk River Stone, MS, LMHC/Kim Pearson
The Trevor Project, Los Angeles, CA, “Supporting the little ‘t’ in the GLBT community” Kim Pearson/Betsy Hanger
Colorado Gold Rush, multiple workshops presenter
Professional Services Workshop Northern Arizona Regional Behavioral Health Association, Professional Development Seminar, Transgender Youth in the Social Service Setting.
Los Angeles Trans Unity 8 Conference Keynote “What You Can Do,”
Phoenix, AZ - Transgender Day of Remembrance, Keynote “Another Kind of Violence – TransYouth Suicide,”
Launch of the Amethyst Ribbon Campaign for transyouth suicide prevention, Holland, MI
Tacoma Public Schools, “Difference Isn’t Wrong…It Just Is, Schools K-12
Las Vegas, NV - Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays “PFLAG and TYFA: Allies
  Supporting “T” Youth and Their Families”
PFLAG National Conference, Education and Advocacy in Elementary Schools, presenter
PFLAG Tacoma, WA, meeting topic presenter

2006
Tucson, AZ - Transgender Day of Remembrance “Come Together to Support TransYouth,”

Media Appearances:
2010
KALW Public Radio,San Francisco,
Interview with Matt Wood, Esq. Staff Attorney, Transgender Law Center, Shannon Minter, Esq., National Center for Lesbian Rights and Kim Pearson

2009
TYRA Banks Show, Transgender children feature show
Lundon Calling, radio interview
Equality AZ Radio, interview
KRXQ Radio, Sacramento, CA – Featured guest for 3 hours of transgender education
NathanOUT LOUD, podcast interview
Transponder, podcast radio interview

2008
CNN Prime Time News
KPFK "the morning review w/riKu matsuda

Media Consulting:
2010
The Dr. Oz Show, Dr. Mehmet Oz, who rose to fame as a regular medical correspondent on Oprah, talked with two transgender youngsters and their families about their experiences growing up and their parents’ decision to support them. Families provided by TYFA.

2009
National Geographic, “Sex, Lies & Gender”, Documentary featuring the Romero Family of Tucson AZ supplied by TYFA
TYRA Banks Show,

2008
Dr. Drew Pinsky, KGIL LA’s News/Talk radio 2/2008: GLBT Related Education:

2007
CNN Newsroom: transgender children interview with son Shawn, 2007

Awards:
2010
Colorado Gender Identity Center, Melissa Chapman Award for