Experience You Can Count On

"Maureen puts her years of experience to work when you bring her in. She designed an all staff workshop on trauma informed care that was outstanding. It was rooted in theory and humanity. She wove in stories and real-life examples of what our work can do to best support our patients. It was one of the best workshops we have hosted."

With more than 30 years experience in health care, Maureen offers program development, instructional design, and microlearning toward building better care and learning environments. She delivers expert training design and delivery, meeting facilitation, and policy review, revision, and development. Her work includes a special focus on LGBTQ+ health and wellness, inclusion and belonging, with specific tools and resources to build better trans and nonbinary patient, student, and staff experience.   

Maureen’s work speaks to the reality that typically embodied femininity and whiteness dominate many health organizations. This too often means silencing voices, ideas, and progress that do not align with these dominant norms while perpetuating systemic racism and discrimination. Maureen’s approach and thinking are built from the wisdom of Black feminist thought and queer theories as foundations to decenter, deconstruct, and unseat habits and systems of power and harm.

Her published work includes activities in “Providing Transgender and Non-Binary Care at Planned Parenthood: A Best Practice Guide and Start-Up Action Kit, “My Body, My Rules: The Body Esteem Sexual Esteem Connection,” articles and chapters in "Trans Forming Families: Real Stories About Transgendered Loved Ones," (Knoll Press), "Sexual Lives: Theories and Realities of Human Sexualities,' (Macmillan Press), “The Encyclopedia of Africa and the Americas,” (ABC-CLIO Transatlantic Relations Series), and “The Teaching Transgender Toolkit.” 

Additionally, Maureen’s work has been featured in The Guardian, The Atlantic, and The Advocate and her media projects on sexual health and sex ed have won several international awards including a Telly Award and a Bronze World Medal from the New York Film Festival. Her honors include: a Citation for Outstanding Leadership in Public Health from the New York State Public Health Association, the Community Champion Award from the Empire State Pride Agenda, the Gay and Lesbian Medical Association’s National Achievement Award and serving as a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Fellow and a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Ladder to Leadership Fellow.