Media Kit
Ignacio G Rivera's Bio
Ignacio G Hutía Xeiti Rivera (Ig-Nah-See-Oh Gee Who-tee-ah She-eye-tee Ree-ve-Rah), M.A., is a cultural sociologist with expertise in sexual trauma and healing for marginalized populations. Ignacio is a Queer, Trans/Genderfluid, Chronically-ill, Black-Boricua, and Taíno activist who prefers the gender-neutral pronoun “they.” They are an internationally known gender non-conforming speaker, educator, writer, and performer with over 20 years of experience on multiple fronts, including economic justice, anti-racist and anti-violence work, as well as mujerista, LGBTQI and sex positive movements. Ignacio is also the founder and curator of Poly Patao Productions, which began 20 years ago and centers the sexual liberation of LGBTQI people of color. Ignacio’s work is influenced by their lived experience of homelessness, poverty, and sexual trauma and is focused on providing educational opportunities that are especially geared toward the sexual liberation of queer women, transgender, multi-gender, gender-queer, gender non-conforming, gender variant and queer people of color.
As the Founder and Executive Director of The HEAL Project, Ignacio is on a mission to prevent and end childhood sexual abuse through healing the wounds of sexual oppression and embracing sexual liberation. igrivera.com | heal2end.org
Aredvi Azad's Bio
Aredvi Azad (uh-Red-vee ah-Zah-d) is a speaker, educator, and trainer building the movement for sexual healing and liberation. Aredvi has a decade of experience creating educational media and programming on gender and sexuality, intersectional approaches to relationship building, survivor healing, and prevention of sexual violence. As an Irani-American queer and trans/non-binary immigrant living with multiple disabilities, Aredvi's work focuses on the link between sexual violence, especially childhood sexual abuse, and the oppressive traumas of racism, sexism, ableism, classism, and other systems of inequality. As a scientist-turned-sex-educator, Aredvi is working towards a sexually imaginative and expansive world. Aredvi is the Co-Executive Director at The HEAL Project, on a mission to prevent and end childhood sexual abuse through healing the wounds of sexual oppression and embracing sexual liberation. aredviazad.com | heal2end.org
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