“We have to do it because we can no longer stay invisible. We should not be ashamed of who we are. We have to show the world that we are numerous. There are many of us out there”
A little more about me!
Hello wonderful humans, I am Triss Ingels. I am a purveyor of knowledge leading to action. I work at the intersection LGBTIQA+ community, religion, and corporate America. I am a transgender, non-binary, pansexual, polyamorous, queer that has a heart to see queer people given the respect and equity they so deserve in the workplace and elsewhere. I specialize in creating transition guidelines, speaking and educating corporations on LGBTIQA2+ topics especially training on transgender/gender non-conforming/nonbinary employees. I am IT Cloud Engineer with 10 years of experience in the tech industry. Throughout my career, I have learned the importance of equity, especially in the workplace. I am available for creating materials for your company for speaking engagements, or for personal consulting.
“QUEERNESS IS NOT yet here. Queerness is an ideality. Put another way, we are not yet queer. We may never touch queerness, but we can feel it as a warm illumination of a horizon imbued with potentiality. We have never been queer, yet queerness exists for us as an ideality that can be distilled from the past and used to imagine a future. The future is queerness’s domain”
— The Opening lines of Cruising Utopia by José Esteban Muñoz
Training and Education:
My training and background are a different mix of degrees and training. I have an undergraduate degree from Hardin-Simmons University in Computer Science, a Master of Theological Studies from Southern Methodist University, and most recently a Master of Sacred Theology specializing in Gender and Sexuality Studies from Boston University. At first glance, this eclectic degree path seems out of place, but it has given me a deep perspective on the nature of people and the importance of meeting people where they are at. I strive to be a resource for people dealing with complex issues, whether that is religious trauma related to being queer, the complexities of equity in the corporate world, or working towards amplifying the work of BIPOC transgender and non-binary people.
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