Come join us and speaker Álvaro Gamio Cuervo to talk about gender diversity and how to support your transgender and nonbinary friends! This workshop will review introductory gender information, give tips on how to be an accomplice, and include a chat about how to keep learning more.

Álvaro Gamio Cuervo (he/they/él/elle) is a first-year doctoral student in the Counseling Psychology Ph.D. program at UMass Boston. Álvaro received their MSW in Social Work and their clinical work focused on trauma/crisis services with LGBTQ, POC, and low-income young adult populations. Their research focuses on hope and resilience for trans folks of color, more specifically on how Latinx trans individuals make meaning of family rejection and the relationship between suicidal thoughts and behaviors. Álvaro enjoys cooking new recipes, crocheting, exercising, and watching copious amounts of reality television.

This program is sponsored by the Friends of the Tewksbury Public Library.