On behalf of OutLaw, The Center for Juvenile Law & Policy, and Legal Name & Gender Marker Change Project, we present "Defending Gender Affirming Care for Youth." This event will be held in Donovan Hall on March 18, 2025 from 12-1PM. 

The panel will include speakers with a range of experience who will speak on the importance of this life-saving care for youth as well as methods advocates and legal professionals use to defend it. 

Here are the bios of our incredible panelists:

• Bamby Salcedo:

  • Bamby’s wide-ranging activist work has brought visibility and given a voice to not only the trans community, but to countless others whose efforts focus on critical topics that include immigration, HIV, at-risk youth, LGBTQIA+ issues, incarceration, and more. Through her dynamic leadership, Bamby has developed several organizations that have created networks and connections where there were none, and she, to this day, tirelessly advocates for the rights, dignity, and humanity of those who are often silenced. Determined to affect change at every level, Bamby actively engages and supports many local, national, and international organizations and planning groups. As a recognized public speaker, Bamby’s experience has an extensive range. She has expertise in presenting to governmental bodies, human rights and social justice organizations, and universities and colleges, as well as speaking at demonstrations and rallies and testifying as an expert witness. Bamby has also appeared at national and international conferences as a featured speaker. She speaks to diverse audiences on varied topics and intersecting issues that include transgender-related issues, social justice, healthcare, social services, incarceration, immigration, and detention as well as professional and economic development for transgender people. Thanks to her impassioned and impactful influence, Bamby has been invited several times by the White House to participate on a multitude of panels. In 2015, she proudly shared the stage with President Biden at the United States of Women Summit and later that same year she spoke at the Transgender Women of Color and Violence and LGBTQ People of Color Summit. In 2021, Bamby visited the White House again to speak as an invited guest and valued advocate on the issues of safety, inclusion, as well as opportunities for transgender individuals. Bamby was also invited to testify before Congress to speak on the Equal Rights Amendment with the ERA

• Michelle (Shelly) Page:

  • Michelle (Shelly) Page is a staff attorney on the Homeless Youth Project at the Los Angeles LGBT Center. She offers direct services to homeless youth, ages 18-24, most of which are queer-identifying people of color. Her work ranges in scope from civil petitions to asylum claims. She has a B.A. from Columbia University and a J.D. from Northwestern School of Law. She has been with the Center for 5 years.

• Minouche Kandel:

  • Minouche Kandel is a Senior Staff Attorney in the LGBTQ, Gender & Reproductive Justice Project at the ACLU of Southern California.  Current areas of focus are sex work decriminalization, the family regulation system, and pregnancy/lactation accommodations in the workplace. Minouche was previously the Women’s Policy Director at the San Francisco Department on the Status of Women (DOSW), where she helped to coordinate San Francisco’s response to domestic violence and human trafficking.   Prior to working at DOSW, Minouche worked in the area of domestic violence for over twenty years, most of that time as a staff attorney at Bay Area Legal Aid, where she represented survivors of intimate partner violence in family law cases.  Minouche is a recipient of the 2008 California Lawyer Attorney of the Year (Public Interest Law category) and the Daily Journal’s 2009 Top 100 Lawyers in California. Minouche got her B.A. from Yale University and her J.D. from Harvard Law School.

Please RSVP here if you plan to attend. Food will be provided.