Speakers
Dominique Morgan
(She/Her)
Director
Fund for Trans Generations at Borealis Philanthropy
Dominique Morgan (She/Her) is an international award-winning artist, activist, and TEDx speaker. As the Director of the Fund for Trans Generations at Borealis Philanthropy, she leads the largest philanthropic fund serving Trans and Non Binary people worldwide. As the Founder and CEO of Starks and Whitiker Consulting, she partners her lived experience of mass incarceration (including 18 months in solitary confinement) with a decade of change-making artistry and advocacy to activate powerful work in spaces of sex education, radical self-care, and transformative youth development with the intentions of dismantling the prison industrial complex and a develop innovative theory she describes as the “gender to prison pipeline.” Ms. Morgan is a 2023 GLAAD Award winner, Ten Outstanding Young Americans Award recipient, NAACP Freedom Fighter Award recipient, JM Kaplan Innovation Prize recipient, and the 2021 United States nominee for Ten Outstanding Young People in the World. Ms. Morgan is the only Black Trans Woman in history and the only living Trans Woman in the US to have a street named after her (in her hometown of Omaha, NE), and Ms. Morgan is the only global model in Apple’s history. She has been featured in People, The Advocate, and Out Magazine, Her new album Pisces In E Flat Major is available on all platforms, and her forthcoming biography and documentary will be released in 2024. Find out more about Dominique at www.dominiquemorgan.com.