Ceyenne Doroshow (pronounced Kai-Ann) is a compassionate powerhouse performer, activist, organizer, community-based researcher and public figure in the trans and sex worker rights’ movements. As the Founder and Executive Director of G.L.I.T.S., she works to provide holistic care to LGBTQ sex workers while serving on 10 international boards including SWOP Behind Bars, Lysistrata, SOAR Institute, Caribbean Equality Project, NYU Law, NYTAG, Transgender Justice of San Francisco, the Leslie-Lohman Museum, and many more. As an international public speaker, her presentations include The Desiree Alliance, Creating Change, SisterSong, Harm Reduction Coalition and the International AIDS Conferences. She was a featured emcee for Toronto Pride and MOMA/PS1’s Sex Workers’ Festival of Resistance, lifting her voice as a trans woman of color. Ceyenne has been heavily featured in the media, has performed on television in Showtime’s OZ, for the documentaries Red Umbrella Diaries and Miss Major. She is also featured in PRIDE: a Netflix documentary that will premiere this fall. Known for her skills in the kitchen, Ceyenne co-authored the Caribbean cookbook Cooking in Heels, while incarcerated on prostitution charges. She is currently working on her second memoir, titled Out of the Fire and into the Pen. She is additionally about to start her own podcast titled Tea & Crumpets with co-host Shear Avory along with others including you, global village. Ceyenne’s belief in life is to inspire yourself to inspire others.
Ceyenne Doroshow
The Struggles Faced by Incarcerated Transgender, Gender Non-conforming, Intersex and Non-binary People: Effective Reforms for Jails and Prisons