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NorthEast Two-Spirit Society
N/A
c/o American Indian Artists Inc. (AMERINDA)
288 East 10th Street
New York,
NY
USA
10009
harlan@ne2ss.org
Biographical Sketch:
2004 to present - Co-Founder and Director, NorthEast Two-Spirit Society
2011 to present - Principle Two-Spirit consultant for SAMHSA's Native American Center for Excellance.
2012 to present - Principle Two-Spirit consultant National American Indian and Alaska Native Addiction Technology Center
2013 - Lead organizer for the 25th Annual International Two-Spirit Gathering, Sept. 18-23 in Wading River, NY
2013 - Appointed as Honorary Committee Member of the Institute for Sexual Minority Studies at University of Alberta
2013 - Appointed as a American Representative to the International Indigenous Peoples Working Group on HIV/AIDS
2013 - Publication - A Hidden Crisis: HIV in the Two-Spirit Community By Harlan Pruden, Tim Nuttle and Shannon Finucane for ACRIA and GMHC, NY
2013 - Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS (02/08/13) Two-Spirit Presentation, resulting in the passing of a Two-Spirit Resolution and the inclusion of Two-Spirit in the Transgender Resolution, additionally, there was a followup blog post on AIDS.gov
2013 - Webinar for Administration for Native Americans and parent agency of the Administration for Children and Families, a branch of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, "Two-Spirit People: Then and Now – Sex, Gender and Sexuality in Historical & Contemporary Native America"
2013 - Two-Spirit training for Rose Bud Reservation Youth Program
2013 - Two-Spirit training for Ho-Chunk Nation's Department of Health staff
2012/13 - Two-Spirit presentations: Brown University ('12/'13), Portland State University ('13), Adelphi University, Jersey City College ('12/'13), UCONN ('12/'13), NYU ('12), CUNY Hunter College ('12/'13), Drexel University ('12/'13), Slippery Rock University ('12)
2012/13 - Philadelphia Trans Health Conferences: Two-Spirit Then and Now: An Introduction to the Two-Spirit Community( '12/'13), Providing (more) Culturally Appropriate Services to the Two-Spirit Community Members ('13),
2013 - Oral presentation at National Conference on Addiction Disorders & Behavior Health Summit - "Addressing and Healing Historical Trauma from a Two-Spirit (LGBT Native) Perspective"