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Tiommi Luckett is a native of Arkansas and current resident of Little Rock. She identifies as a woman of trans experience of African descent. She is interested in conversations about transformative justice. She is an advocate for ending criminalization. As a Black woman of trans experience living with HIV in Arkansas, the potential for incarceration is ever-present. Tiommi believes that ending bailouts and pretrial detention, diverting resources to community for education, awareness, and sensitivity training can eliminate the continued murders of Black trans bodies everywhere.

Matt comes to the board bringing over 30 years of experience involved with various Southern California LGBTQ+ community center programs and services. He has worked extensively with AIDS organizations, safe sex groups, education, mentoring and stepping in in many various volunteer opportunities and community programs. He owned and operated Clarity House, a drug and alcohol recovery center for over 11 years.  He provided safe spaces for LGBTQ community members in need of care and sober living opportunities. He has spent the last  8 years as an entrepreneur in hospitality developing and managing a B&B type guest house  serving a global community

Wazi Maret (he/they) is a coach, resource mobilizer, and artist with Southern and working class roots who supports individuals and communities in their capacity to transform, heal and expand into their power and embodied leadership. With nearly 15 years working in social movements, the nonprofit sector, and as a connector in philanthropy—Wazi uses a relational and community-centered approach to deepen connection, mobilize resources and strengthen movement ecosystems. They have played numerous roles to support social justice movements, from cultural organizing to fundraising, organizational development, facilitation and more. Within their creative practice, Wazi is exploring how communities heal and build

I have been a friend and supporter of Miss Major for over 30 years. When she founded the House of gg, I joined her in advancing its vital mission: to nurture the leadership of transgender women of color in the U.S. South. Our work is grounded in the broader goals of equity, empowerment, and justice—principles that are essential to fostering inclusive leadership and creating meaningful, lasting change. In these challenging times, it is more important than ever to stand in solidarity with the trans community and ensure their voices are heard and their leadership recognized.

Tracie Jada O’Brien is a longtime advocate and role model for the transgender community, having overcome challenges in San Francisco’s Tenderloin District in the 1970s. She has served as an addiction treatment counselor and Director of Day Outpatient Services at Steppingstone of San Diego and coordinated Southern California’s first Transgender Support and Care program, Project S.T.A.R., in 2004. Tracie founded San Diego’s Transgender Day of Empowerment and the Tracie Jada O’Brien Student Scholarship Program, supporting trans and gender-nonconforming youth. She is active in national and state-level transgender advocacy efforts and currently works with Miss Major’s House of gg, supporting Black

Nat has been involved in the struggle for trans liberation since the early 2000s beginning in the San Francisco Bay Area of California with the Trans in Prison Project of California Prison Focus, also known as TIP. TIP would become the Transgender, Gender Variant and Intersex Justice Project (TGIJP), of which Nat is a founding member. In 2005, Nat created “Bustin’ Out: Party Against the Prison Industrial Complex”, the annual fundraiser and official San Francisco Trans March afterparty still held by TGIJP today. It was through TGIJP that Nat met Miss Major and the lifelong friendship began. Nat approaches

In March 2023, Muriel Tarver joined House of gg/tilifi with over 20 years of non-profit and community service experience. She established a 501(c)3 Public Charity focused on art in 2012 and was commended for her efforts to promote culture in underserved and neglected communities in Birmingham, Alabama. Muriel has played a crucial role in supporting the House of gg’s strategic direction and spearheaded Miss Major’s tilifi Tour across the country. Muriel Tarver’s life’s work as a humanitarian is fostered by her desire for community enrichment and support for underserved people. Her service is a tribute to the memory of her mother, who raised her in

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy was a Black, transgender activist who fought for more than fifty years for her trans and gender-nonconforming community. She was a veteran of the historic Stonewall Riots, a former sex worker, and a survivor of Dannemora Prison and Bellevue Hospital’s “queen tank.” Her global legacy of activism was rooted in her own lived experiences, and she devoted her life to uplifting transgender women of color, particularly those who had survived incarceration and police brutality. Miss Major’s fierce commitment and intersectional approach to justice led her to care directly for people with HIV/AIDS in New York in