Board Members
Meet our board members!
Our board members dedicate time outside of their day jobs to maintain our large selection of programs. Their hard work is crucial to the maintenance and expansion of Trans-E-Motion's crucial programs and surveys that our community depends on.
Arien Reed (he/él, they/elle)
Chair, and Coordinator of Navigating Gender Together
"I’m a gender-nonconforming, transgender man who enjoys serving on Trans-E-Motion because I want to help make our community safe and welcoming to trans people, especially those from underserved backgrounds. Before joining TEM as Secretary in 2022, I worked for six years as the budget technician for the Disabled Students Programs and Services at Fresno City College, and spent that time also volunteering on multicultural taskforces, associations, and committees, authoring restroom/gym facility proposals, assisting with the Antiracism Resolution, and co-presenting cultural competency workshops, to demand queer inclusion, racial equity, and disability access. I'm so grateful to be here at Trans-E-Motion, and I look forward to continuing this intersectional work in my renewed role as Chair. Outside of Trans-E-Motion, I am a full-time daddy and professional artist."
Arien coordinates Navigating Gender Together (gender affirming garments resource programs, salon certificate giveaways, and trans peer support sessions). He also assists with Trans-E-Motion's social media, outreach, event planning, grant writing, translation and accessibility, and public relations.
April Taylor-Salery (she/her)
Treasurer, Rental Relief and Community Care Coordinator, and Networks of Care Coordinator
"I am a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who owns and operates my private practice Affirming Family Counseling. I have been a part of the board of Trans-E-Motion since 2019 and served as treasurer since 2020. As a cisgender, bi-ethnic person I have worked with other community members to increase gender affirming healthcare in the central valley and look forward to expanding that care through the plans we have for 2024. It is a passion of mine to offer free of charge letters of support to the transgender and gender diverse community as well as provide the support to other clinicians so that they can offer those services as well."
In addition to overseeing and reporting on Trans-E-Motion's financial activities, April coordinates both of Trans-E-Motion's grant programs (for Rent Relief and Medical Transition), writes free WPATH letters of support for medical transition, and coordinates the Communities of Care Network. She also assists with Trans-E-Motion's event planning, grant writing, and public relations.
Katherine M Fobear (she/her)
Secretary
"I'm an Associate Professor in the Department of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Fresno State. I have proudly served on Trans-E-Motion's board since 2018 as a cisgender white-settler person and I have worked on several initiatives to increase gender-affirming healthcare access in Fresno and the Central Valley. My desire to serve on Trans-E-Motion's board is to collaboratively work with the Central Valley's diverse trans community in platforming transgender voices and issues for change. "
Kat assists with Trans-E-Motion's meeting agendas, meeting minutes, event planning, grant writing, initiative-making, outreach, and public relations.