Excutive Director
Rad Care
4408 Delridge Way SW
Seattle,
WA
USA
98106
smittybuckler@gmail.com
Biographical Sketch:
2015 to current: Executive Director, Rad Care (Seattle, WA)
Primary responsibilities: reports to Board of Directors, general management, grant writing, fundraising, program development, research development, outreach worker training curriculum development, recruitment, and program evaluation.
2015 to current: Recruitment Specialist, Fred Hutch (Seattle, WA)
Primary responsibilities: recruit participants for groundbreaking HIV vaccine studies. Recruitment occurs in local venues that may include street locations, community events, community based organizations, public clinics as well as bars, dance clubs, and sex clubs. Recruitment efforts target diverse populations according to the demands of the current studies. Work includes some administrative.
2015 to current: HIV & STI Tester/Phlebotomist, Gay City Health Project (Seattle, WA)
average seven clients a day for blood draw, collect of other fluids and counseling individuals on safer sex practices. Additionally working with individuals and community around anti-stigma work.
2016- Qualitative Methods Workshop (UW Global Health Program Seattle)
2015- Principles of HIV 40 hour (UW Global Health Program Seattle)
2014- Trans Health Epistemology NIH Research Grant (Alexis Dinno, Sc.D., M.P.H, M.E.M)
2013-2016~ Trans Sexual Health Medical Anthropologic Research (IRB approved) (Charles Klein, PhD, Portland State)
2014- Qualitative Analysis, Graduate Level (Paula Carder, PhD, Portland State)
2010-2011 Trans Action Committee, advocated and educated the campus Health Center to provide trans healthcare. (Queer Resource Center, Portland State)
Presenter:
2014- Rad Care: Radical Community Care (Applied Media Conference, Detroit, MI)
2014- Healthy Relationships, Healthy Boundaries (EPIC, Evergreen State College, Olympia WA)
2013- Talking about Bodies and Safer Sex for Youth (Gender Spectrum, Oakland, CA)
2013- Trans Identity, Mental Health and Domestic Violence (GLMA Health Conference, Denver, CO)