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Bamby Salcedo and Elana Redfield

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In honor of Trans Awareness Week, Latina transgender speaker and activist Bamby Salcedo joins Elana Redfield, Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law, in conversation at the Hammer. An audience Q&A will follow the conversation.

Salcedo is highly regarded, nationally and internationally, as an activist, advocate, community organizer, and social justice advocate and professional. Redfield is the Federal Policy Director at the Williams Institute. The leading research center on sexual orientation and gender identity law and public policy, the Williams Institute ensures that facts—not stereotypes—inform laws, policies, and judicial decisions that affect the LGBT community.

Bamby Salcedo

After receiving an award for her continued fight for justice for Trans Latina community, Bamby Salcedo reflected a humble and authentic gratitude for just being alive and having somehow been given an improbable second chance in life.

Her unassuming warmth, transparency, and playful character coexist with the seriousness of her determined commitment. Salcedo is fortunate and grateful to be alive; this is expressed in her life through her wide and unique smile. Her work and in her signature dance moves that are always ready to spontaneously erupt.

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Elana Redfield

Elana Redfield, J.D., is the Federal Policy Director at the Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law. In this role, she coordinates the Institute’s legal research and analysis related to federal and state policies that impact lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning, and intersex people. Before joining the Williams Institute, Elana worked with the New York City Department of Social Services, where she oversaw the agency’s initiative to improve safety net services and homelessness interventions for LGBTQI communities. Prior to this, Elana served as a staff attorney for the Sylvia Rivera Law Project, where she utilized direct legal representation, impact litigation, public education, and policy strategies to help meet survival needs and promote the self-determination of low-income transgender people and transgender people of color. Elana is a 2008 graduate of CUNY School of Law and a 2003 graduate of New York University.