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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