Pauline Park
author, trainer, activist & community organizer (www.paulinepark.com)

B.A., philosophy, University of Wisconsin-Madison (1982)
M.Sc., European studies, London School of Economics & Political Science (1983)
Ph.D., political science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1994)
co-founder, New York Association for Gender Rights Advocacy (1998) (www.nyagra.com)
chair, NYAGRA board of directors (2004–present)
chair, NYAGRA fundraising & development committee (January 2000-June 2005):
raised over $150,000 in funding for NYAGRA
co-founder, Queens Pride House (a center for the LGBT communities of Queens) (1997)
co-founder, Out People of Color Political Action Club (OutPOCPAC) (2001)
(the first political club specifically by and for LGBT people of color in New York City)
coordinator, campaign for the enactment of the New York City transgender rights law
(Int. No. 24, enacted as Local Law 3 of 2002)
member, working group convened by the New York City Commission on Human Rights to
draft guidelines (adopted Dec. 2004) for implementation of the 2002 transgender rights law
first transgendered grand marshal in the history of the New York City Pride March (2005)
profiled in:
– “’Jag är en visionär’: En kamp för allas frihet,” Maria Jacobson möter
transaktivisten Pauline Park (intervjun) (interview), Arbetaran, 51-52.2000)
– “Envisioning Justice: The Journey of a Transgendered Woman” (2008):
documentary by Larry Tung about the life and work of Pauline Park, screened at:
New York & San Francisco LGBT Film Festivals, Rhode Island International Film Festival
– “Al treilea sex” (interview with Pauline Park), Inklusiv (pp. 12-13, March 2006)
(magazine published by ACCEPT, the national LGBT advocacy organization in Romania)
trainer, facilitating hundreds of transgender sensitivity training sessions for:
government agencies, social services providers, and health care providers, including:
– the first transgender sensitivity training sessions for a major hospital in New York City
named to Idealist in NYC’s ‘New York 40’ list (9.29.08) as:
“A leading advocate for transgender rights in New York”
http://idealistnyc.wordpress.com/2008/09/29/idealists-new-york-40
author of hundreds of articles & blog posts, including:
– “Maastricht, Security and Integration Theory,” in European Security, Vol. 4, No. 4 (winter
1995), pp. 546-570 (based on doctoral dissertation)
– “International Theory & LGBT Politics: Testing the Limits of a Human Rights-Based
Strategy,” in GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian & Gay Studies (Vol. 3, No. 4), pp. 357-384.
– “Homeward Bound: The Journey of a Transgendered Korean Adoptee,“ in
Patricia Justine Tumang and Jenesha de Rivera (eds.), Homelands: Women’s
Journeys Across Race, Place, and Time (Berkeley: Seal Press, 2007)

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