Wren (they/them) is the Executive Director of the Sam & Devorah Foundation for Trans Youth. Raised in the woods and the first person in their rural Southern family to go to college, they received a Ph.D. in American history with a focus on gender studies before deciding to leave academia to work with social justice nonprofits, most recently Trans Lifeline. When they’re not building the queer collectivist world that they want to live in, they enjoy practicing jiu jitsu moves with their gender creative superhero eleven-year-old, healing through somatics and parts work, learning how to play the drums, lead climbing, and skiing with their niblings.