Elise Braun

Irkutsk State University: management/economics. Experienced wholesale manager in the past, junior Java/Android developer now. Languages: English (upper intermediate), Russian (native). Lesbian non-binary trans woman (preferred pronouns: she/her), 30 years old. Volunteer activist (T9 NSK Service project for transgender people and their close ones) for 2,5 years. Advisor or coordinator of the project’s many initiatives (monitoring of the actual needs of transgender people in Siberia, various translation and text writing projects), support group leader, peer-to-peer consultant for transgender people, member of the fundraising team. Co-organizer of two training seminars for psychologists and LGBT activists about the specifics of working with transgender people. Now working on an IT security training course for activists