As we celebrate Pride Month and the LGBTQIA+ Community, this workshop will help participants develop a deeper understanding of gender identity, gender expression, and ways of supporting transgender and nonbinary people. Through self-reflection and discussion of key concepts and terms, participants will gain a greater awareness of how issues related to gender impact all of us as well as specific experiences of transgender and nonbinary people. Participants will also learn about the diverse ways gender has manifested across time in different countries and cultures. Finally, the presenters will discuss practical strategies for supporting transgender and nonbinary people in our personal and professional lives.
While not required to attend, we encourage workshop participants to listen to the podcast episode Gender is complicated for all of us. Let’s talk about it with Ezra Klien and Dr. Kathryn Bond Stockton in advance to help jumpstart reflection on some of the workshop’s content.
Learn about the speakers below!
Meet the Speakers
Dr. Joe Orovecz (he/him)
Dr. Joe Orovecz (he/him) is a psychologist at Stanford’s Faculty and Staff Help Center where he provides brief counseling, co-facilitates the monthly LGBTQIA+ Connections Discussion Group, and offers workshops and trainings. Joe earned his PhD in Counseling Psychology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison where his research, teaching, and community work focused on the experience of LGBTQIA+ people as well as crisis and suicide prevention and intervention. In the counseling and consultation work Joe does here at Stanford, he strives to integrate collaboration, empathy, genuineness, cultural responsiveness, and systems thinking to support clients in making the changes they hope to experience in their personal and professional lives.
Jean Sapiro (she/her)
Jean Sapiro (she/her) is a Marriage and Family Therapist at Stanford’s Faculty and Staff Help Center. Jean earned her MA in Counseling from Palo Alto University, emphasizing marriage, family, and children. Jean has worked in the Intensive Outpatient setting, teaching after-school program interventions and resiliency education. The program focused on emotion regulation and crisis management. Jean’s approach to counseling is understanding her clients through their lens, validation, and meeting clients where they are with support, empathy, and tools to process what they are going through.
Sigi Javitz (They/Them)
Sigi Javitz is a principal data scientist on the population health analytics team. They have been working for Stanford Healthcare for 8 years. At SHC they have served as a leader on the Pride and the Emerging professionals ERGs and have been involved in the TDS unification, serve as a leader on the LGBTQ+ Subcommittee, a leader on the WABWC phase 2 reporting and analytics group, have worked to enhance the healthcare coverage for queer employees, and updated policy documents to be more sexuality and gender inclusive.
