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Gia is an experienced, personal and impactful speaker, centering her work on the movement for social justice. She has presented at over 25 community events and has facilitated tons of workshops. She is an open collaborator and can support your group with curriculum, conversations, and change-making. Invite Gia to collaborate using the contact form here.

Speaker bio

Juniperangelica Gia Loving is a student, mother, artist, organizer, and lover. She is also Chicana, queer, trans, non-binary woman...always growing, learning, and teaching. Gia started teaching through conversation, keynote, lecture, and storytelling in high school and has continued connecting with national community since; she grounds her work in an understanding that it is not only possible to create a world free from violence, but we are creating one. Gia resides on Ohlone land in the Bay Area where she is reading books, staring at the stars, and raising Tiger, the coolest kid.

JGL is available to facilitate the following formats:

  • keynote address

  • workshop creation + facilitation

  • panel participation + facilitation

  • consult organizational strategy planning

JGL is ready to focus on the following conversations:

  • gender justice

  • women in leadership

  • politics of bitchiness/aggression

  • queer/trans 101

  • queer/trans intersectional justice

  • centering femmes in our work

  • campus organizing and respectability politics

  • higher education while ____ (queer, trans, Latina)

  • mothering and loving

  • queering parenting

JGL has been invited to join & share at the following events:

  • 6th Annual Carolina Conference on Queer Youth (Charlotte, North Carolina)

  • Akonadi Foundation: Vanguards of the Movement Panel (Virtual)

  • Alameda County Behavioral Health LGBTQ Youth Conference (Oakland, California)

  • Association of Latin American Students Keynote (Illinois State University)

  • Berkeley Student Cooperatives - Oppression & Gender Workshops (UC Berkeley)

  • Campus Pride, Camp Pride (University of North Carolina, Charlotte)

  • ‘Dare to be Powerful’ QTPOC Keynote (CSU Northridge)

  • De Colores QT Conference Keynote (UC Berkeley)

  • Exploratorium Museum: Queer the Future Panel (San Francisco, CA)

  • Gates Foundation Panel (Virtual)

  • HRC Panel on Equality (UC Berkeley)

  • Lavender Graduation (2x) (University of New Mexico)

  • LGBT Leaders Victory Fund Conference (Las Vegas, Nevada)

  • Madre Mía en la Universidad with Juniperangelica (CSU San Marcos)

  • Mama Scholars Symposium, Mothering Academia (San Diego State University)

  • Miami-Dade County Leadership Summit (Miami, Florida)

  • Mills College Latinx Graduation (Mills College)

  • MUJERcitas Conference (UC Santa Barbara)

  • ¡PRESENTE! Conference (UC Riverside)

  • Pride Keynote (Rio Hondo College)

  • Semana de Conocimiento Community Dinner (UC Davis)

  • Trans Agenda Conference (3x) (California State University, Chico)

  • Trans Law Center Leadership Conference (CSU Fullerton)

  • Trans Panel on Community & Restroom Safety (University of Southern California)

  • University of Missouri Pride Month Keynote (Columbia, Missouri)

  • Womxn's Unite Banquet (UC Santa Barbara)

  • YES! Youth Empowerment Summit (San Francisco, California)

Last updated Summer 2021