Brieanne (pronouns she/her/hers) is a doctoral student at The Ohio State University College of Social Work. Her research focuses broadly on gender-based violence—both strategies for prevention and strategies to reduce health disparities among survivors of victimization. She is particularly interested in the intersections of intrapersonal, interpersonal, and structural contexts that promote health, well-being, and empowerment for marginalized populations that are vulnerable to violence. In her role as a research assistant with Dr. Lauren McInroy, she engages in research that explores sexual and gender minority youth’s experiences with online prejudice, discrimination, and victimization.

Egag Egag is a Master of Social Work student at the Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto in the Mental Health and Health stream. He is a graduate from the University of Toronto Mississauga, where he specialized in Sociology. He is interested in working with LGBTQ2IS people (and especially those with additional lived experiences of forced migration), at the community level in ways that are affirming of their intersectionality identities. Egag is an incoming Junior Fellow at Massey College in the University of Toronto. In addition, he also is a recipient of the SSHRC Joseph Armand Bombardier Canadian Graduate Scholarship - Master's (2019-2020), and the Ontario Graduate Scholarship (2018-2019).

Rubén Cervantes Hernández, current doctoral student in Education, Arts and Humanities at the Autonomous University of Chihuahua where his current doctoral thesis is focused on LGBT youth population and some factors around it. He also studies at Autonomous Metropolitan University his specialization in cultural policies and cultural management. Has a master in Humanistic and Educational Research in Human and Cultural Development, with an Honorable Mention in the defense of degree with the thesis: The cultural policy and its impact on the current youth of Zacatecas at the Autonomous University of Zacatecas. Has a bachelor in International Business from the Polytechnic University of Zacatecas, has published one reviewed article.

Julio holds a degree in Psychology by the Faculty of Psychology of the Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán (UADY) in Mérida, Yucatán, México. He has clinical experience offering therapy to adolescents and adults alongside designing, implementing, and evaluating various programs. Some of the topics he has worked on are: Science and technology, HIV and others STIs, masculinities, women's rights, sexual minorities, anxiety, and depression. He is currently studying a master's degree in Applied Clinical Psychology at UADY.

Joshua Holzworth is a Bachelor of Social Work student at Barry University. Josh was awarded the 2019 Violence Prevention Fellowship from the Center for Human Rights and Social Justice to work with Dr. Ashley Austin on qualitative and quantitative research projects focused on elucidating risks to well-being, as well as sources of resilience, faced by transgender and gender diverse youth and adults. In addition to his work with INQYR, Josh is working as a research assistant to Dr. Austin on a qualitative study exploring experiences of gender dysphoria among transgender adults in the U.S. Josh’s clinical and research foci include mental illness, stigma, marginalized populations, and Jungian approaches to clinical intervention.

Kourteney King (pronouns she/her) is a Master of Arts student in Adult Education & Community Development at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), University of Toronto. She worked as a graduate assistant with Dr. Lance McCready on the pre-migration experiences of African, Caribbean, and Black men who have sex with men. Kourteney’s own research is exploring the experiences of harm reduction outreach workers when advocating for people who use drugs in an acute mental health care setting.

Oliver Beer is a Doctoral Candidate in the College of Social Work at The Ohio State University. He holds a B.A. in Social Work and an MSc in Social Research Methods. Oliver is a registered (licensed) social worker in England and he has several years of frontline experience within England’s child welfare system. Oliver’s research interests include the health and well-being of social workers, particularly practitioners’ responses to work-related stressors and their subsequent coping behaviors. Oliver is interested in mindfulness-based training in terms of its use as a buffer against the effects of occupational stress. In his role as a Research Assistant (2019-present) with Dr. Lauren McInroy, Oliver has worked on multiple projects, including: LGBTQ+ youths’ experiences of microaggressions (The ON Study), youth activism in the 21st century, the application of digital vignettes in qualitative research, and the application of online simulation in social work education

Sam Martin (they/them) is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oxford in the Department of Primary Care and Health Sciences. They are currently exploring the healthcare experiences of trans and gender diverse youth in the UK and the development of supportive online resources. They conducted their PhD at the school of Psychology and Sport Science at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge. Their research developed and evaluated QueerViBE, an online intervention that aims to empower trans male and non-binary youth using applied discourse analysis and interactive video tutorials. They have a master’s degree in Psychodynamic Counselling and Psychotherapy and have published work about counselling as a site for the dilemmatic negotiation of masculinities.

Rachael Pascoe (pronouns she/her) is a second year PhD student in Social Work at the University of Toronto. Her current research interests involve shame reduction and accountability taking as a result of group therapy process for adolescents who have sexually harmed. Rachael has a Master of Social Work from University of Toronto and practice experience in the fields of concurrent disorders, violence prevention, and trauma-specific therapy. She has worked for Dr. Shelley Craig’s Affirmative Research Collaborative (ARC) as an RBC Fellow since 2018 and is a current student member of the ISTN. Rachael has been involved in INQYR’s QueerVIEW project, interviewing queer youth’s experiences of intersectionality through photo elicitation. As a part of her RA-ship, she also facilitates Prof. Craig’s AFFIRM groups, providing affirmative CBT group therapy for queer youth in Ontario.

Ankur Srivastava is a PhD Candidate in Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work at University of Southern California, Los Angeles. His research is invested in identifying and examining socio-psychological and cultural factors related to minority stress among LGBTQ* youth and their associated impact on mental well-being. For his Ph.D. dissertation he is examining how minority identities (gender and sexual) change over a period of time, and their association with changes in behavioral outcomes among LGBTQ* youth.

Eleonora Uglik-Marucha is an MSc Clinical Neuropsychiatry student at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN) at King’s College London. She is a research assistant at Psychometrics and Measurement Lab at IoPPN, where she works on psychometric research on childhood gender atypicality and misophonia. As a part of her degree, Eleonora is working on research that explores the relationship between autism spectrum disorder and gender nonconformity. Her research interests involve the influence of sex steroids and environmental factors on gender identity development and behaviour, gender atypicality in congenital adrenal hyperplasia, and intersex conditions.

Keith J. Watts (pronouns he/him/his) is a doctoral student at Virginia Commonwealth University's School of Social Work. He is currently a research assistant to Dr. M. Alex Wagaman, with whom he has conducted research on the experiences of gender and sexual minority youth and students, including the utility of information and communication technologies as an avenue for finding community and support and to facilitate the process of identity development. In addition to this, his research focuses on the relationship between masculinity and mental health for Black men identifying as gay.

Lenin Zamorano is a PhD student in Social Psychology and Environmental Research at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). His research focuses on the intersection of disability, diversity, sexuality, and gender. He collaborates with the Gender and Sexuality Studies Unit at UNAM for projects related to sexual diversity, violence, gender studies, and masculinities.