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Geena Rocero
Award-Winning Producer, Transgender Fashion Model & Activist
Geena Rocero
Award-Winning Producer, Transgender Fashion Model & Activist
Biography
Geena Rocero, born and raised in Manila, Philippines, is a four-time Emmy Nominated and an Award-Winning Producer, Writer, and Director. She’s also a Model, Public Speaker, and Trans Rights Advocate. She is a 2023 Glamour Woman of The Year- making history as the first Filipina to receive the honor. She is the 2023 recipient of The A1 Award in Gold House’s A100 List of the Most Impactful AAPI’s along with Netflix Chief Content Officer Bela Bajaria, Vanity Fair’s Editor in Chief Radhika Jones and YouTube CEO Neal Mohan. She is named as 2023 OUT100’s Most Impactful and Influential LGBTQ People. She is one of Top 25 Transgender Persons Who Influences Culture by TIME Magazine.
This year, her production company Street Pageant Productions will announce their three project slate.
On March 31, 2014, she made history as the First trans person to speak about transgender issues at the iconic TED Conference main stage. In honor of International Transgender Day of Visibility, Rocero came out as transgender at the annual TED Conference, her viral talk has since been viewed close to 5 million times and translated in 32 languages.
She’s an advisory board member of SeeHer- the most influential global coalition of marketers, agencies, media companies and entertainment leaders working to increase the representation and accurate portrayal of all women and girls to transform society.
She was a board member of NY LGBT Center. As the 2020 National Chair for Stonewall Day in June, she helped raised close to 100k for Black and Brown led LGBTQ organizations affected by COVID-19. She’s a partner on FamilyQ.Org, a queer led volunteer network distributor of FDA-approved surgical grade PPEs to front-line organizations. To date, they’ve donated more than 100,000 masks.
Speaker Videos
TED: Why I Must Come Out
LGBT Center NYC Dinner Remarks
Human Rights Campaign Gala
Speech Topics
Gender Proud
This talk will expand on Geena’s story and talk about the importance of centering narratives of Trans people of color. It will also expand intersectional stories and history of immigration as an Asian immigrant. She also speaks on the importance of media representation as the founder of an award-winning production company. She expands the conversation on LGB, Transgender rights with both an American and Global perspectives.
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