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Logan Grimes
is one of the founding members of GIFT.
He earned his degree in Social Work from Northeastern University. He has been active as a community organizer for over 20 years and is committed to working with under-served communities as well as marginalized populations, including providing services related to HIV prevention and education, and child welfare.
Logan is the executor of his own training and consulting agency. His agency is dedicated to educating and training individual providers as well as larger institutions regarding transgender health and many other issues regarding gender expression or identity. Logan also works on transgender issues both locally and nationally endeavors. He currently serves as a member on the advisory committee for Gender Odyssey He currently serves as a member on the advisory committee for Gender Odyssey and a member of the World Professional Associations for Transgender Health. Logan is the recipient of the 2007 Prideindex.com Esteem Awards for his outstanding service to the transgender community and Chicago's 2007 Windy City Black Pride Transgender Pride Award for his dedication and service to the transgender community.
Lyle Blake
is a founding member of GIFT. He is committed to the support of female-bodied men with a strong emphasis on support of transitioning men of color and under-served and marginalized transitioning men. He has been active in the LGBT community since 1980. He is a member of the Gender Odyssey Conference (www.genderodyssey.com) advisory committee and the founding supporter of that conference's People of Color sponsored BBQ, a well-loved event of the conference. He is a participant and supporter of Transfigurations, the award-winning photo-documentary by Jana Marcus (www.janamarcus.com). He has facilitated workshop discussions on maturity, body image, and leadership at the Gender Odyssey Conference (2005, 2006, 2007), California Transgender Leadership Summit (2007), Southern Comfort Conference (2007), and at local FTM support group meetings in Northern California, as well as the guest speaker in college classrooms. He has been a board member of Female-to-Male, International (2007). The work that Lyle does with the FTM community is the work of his heart and he is blessed to be able to be of service.
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