Mara Kiesling
Position:
Founding Executive Director, National Center for Transgender Rights
Areas of Expertise:
violence against transgender individuals around the world, access to medical care for transgender individuals, violence and immigration issues for transgender individuals
Personal Website:
Mara is the founding Executive Director of the National Center for Transgender Equality. A Pennsylvania native, Mara came to Washington after co-chairing the Pennsylvania Gender Rights Coalition. Mara is a transgender-identified woman who also identifies as a parent and a Pennsylvanian. She has served on the board of Directors of Common Roads, an LGBTQ Youth Group, and on the steering committee of the Statewide Pennsylvania Rights Coalition. Mara has nearly twenty-five years of professional experience in social marketing and opinion research.
