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Stephanie Battaglino
 Stephanie Battaglino is a Communications Director at New York Life Insurance Company located in Sleepy Hollow, New York. She successfully transitioned on the job in October of 2005 and is the first transgendered person to do so in the 163-year history of the company. Stephanie's career spans over 25 years in marketing, marketing communications and related fields. In the corporate workplace she has been quite active spearheading the formation of NYLPride, the first ever LGBT employee network group in the history of the company in May of 2007. She is also active in the metro New York chapter of Out & Equal Workplace Advocates; the pre-eminent national organization devoted to the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community in the workplace.
Stephanie holds the position of Secretary on the Board of Directors of the International Foundation for Gender Education (IFGE) and is the Chair of the organization's endowment fund the Winslow Street Fund.
- Your Transitional Journey - It Starts From Within
- KEYNOTE ~ Unity in Diversity: A Need for Connectedness
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Helen Boyd
 Helen Boyd is the author of My Husband Betty (2004) and She's Not the Man I Married (2007). Her blog (en)gender can be found at www.myhusbandbetty.com and the Trans Group Blog she started, can be found at http://transgroupblog.blogspot.com. She is currently teaching at Lawrence University.
- KEYNOTE ~ How We Love You: Let Us Count the Ways
- Sex is a Four Letter Word
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Mona Rae Mason
 Mona Rae Mason has been working on The Transgender Project, an NIH funded study of male to female transgender communities in NYC for the past 5 years. She sits on the Bd. of Directors of the Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund, is a participating member of the Transgender Health Initiative of NY. She is a past speaker at two IFGE conferences and is co-author of two journal papers (awaiting publication). Ms. Mason has presented several TG diversity programs and is currently working with the NYPD Police Academy rewriting the Academy recruit's diversity trainings on transgender.
- KEYNOTE ~ Generativity Within The Transgender Community
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