.... and the rest is Her-Story!
Marissa Miller is a nationally recognized advocate for human rights, social justice, health equity, and LGBTQ equality. Marissa has worked for the last 20 years on the local, state, and national levels to improve access to treatment and care for transgender
people and people living with HIV, and to erase stigma and discrimination through education, policy, advocacy, and visibility.
Marissa is now working to create change Globally, she is the Founder of Trans Solutions Research and Resource Center . Trans Solutions is designed to create a Global Culture of safety for the transgender, non binary, and gender non-conforming communities through policy, safety networks, web developed concepts, certifications and devices.
Marissa has worked with some of the nation’s most influential national agencies working to End the HIV epidemic including: AIDS United, NMAC, CDC, HRSA, NIH and a former Board Member for Positively Trans (T+) Transgender Law Center. Through her work with the CDC Marissa served on the team that created the first intervention specifically designed for Transwomen, TWIST.
Marissa currently serves as the Senior Strategic Director for the National Trans Visibility March, an annual event that brings together over five thousand constituents from across the U.S. Marissa brings a great deal of expertise serving transgender and gender non-conforming communities, specifically in the areas of: program development and oversite.