“In creating a home, I'm creating sustainability. And I'm creating excellence within the people that I'll be housing.”- Ceyenne Doroshow

Ceyenne Doroshow is an author, activist, and the founder and executive director of G.L.I.T.S., an organization dedicated to creating sustainable housing and healthcare for Black transgender people. 

Ceyenne has become “the parent that she desperately wanted as a child” for people around the world. At an early age, Ceyenne identified as transgender and faced a world lacking even the language to understand the experience of a trans person. 

In June 2020, Ceyenne co-organized the historic Liberation March, a Black Trans Lives Matter silent march in Brooklyn, NY. At the march, Ceyenne announced to a crowd of more than 15,000 people that G.L.I.T.S. had raised more than $1 million to secure stable housing for Black trans-New Yorkers. 

Through providing both education and housing, Ceyenne is empowering the next generation of Black transgender leaders. We talk with her about the structure and language she has given to the G.L.I.T.S. community at large to create more leaders.

Highlights, inspiration, & key learnings:

• Origin story. “Sex work, that was my platform. That's how I grew up. That's how I learned a lot about organization. But community is who I am.”
• First member. Alia Adams called Ceyenne from Uganda.
• Creating structure and vetting leaders. The application process and contract G.L.I.T.S. members enter into.
• Creating leaders. Creating a path for leaders to emerge in the G.L.I.T.S. house.

👋🏻Say hi to Ceyenne and learn more about G.L.I.T.S.

✨Say hi to Najva Sol, “Get Together” correspondent.

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