J Leigh (they/them/theirs)
J Leigh Oshiro-Brantly sits at the intersection of people, policy, research, and creativity. Multiracial, Indigenous Ryukyuan trans sex worker and survivor, a pleasure activist and healer living with disabilities, they have known poverty, food/housing instability, labor exploitation, violence, and marginalization and have brought these experiences to their research and advocacy.
Whether community organizing, making documentaries, doing research, or connecting with their chosen fam, J Leigh is passionate about 2SLGBTQIA+ issues, sex work, race, gender-based violence, human trafficking, casual sex, dis/ability, and the creativity of the human spirit.
Serving at organizations like The Ishtar Collective, New Moon Network, GLITS, and New York Transgender Advocacy Group has been their career since 2016. They were an advisor for the Museum of the City of New York’s Transgender Activism Exhibit and received the 2019 Marsha P. Johnson Community Leader Award from New York Transgender Advocacy Group, where they served as the president of the NY State Gender Diversity Coalition from 2019 - 2022. They are currently pursuing an Executive Masters of Public Health at Yale.