Speakers
Arianna Lint, is the Director of Transgender Services at SunServe, a South Florida not-for-profit social service and mental health agency serving the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Questioning Community. Her role is to help connect transgender residents with employment opportunities, safe housing, social networks and medical services. She has served on the board for Translatin@ Coalition, and is vice chair of the Community Empowerment Committee from the HIV Broward planning council, part of Transaction Florida committee group from Equal Florida, and recent be part of Trans (T+) National Advisory Board and is also a speaker for Bristol-Myers Squibb.
She is a Proud Transgender woman originally from Peru, where she lived through her graduation from Law School at San martin de Porres University. Arianna is multi-lingual, speaking Spanish, English, Italian and Portuguese. As in immigrant Transgender woman working for the Florida Health Department (FDH) in the HIV/AIDS Department since 2006; she has seen firsthand how her own community has been ravished by this life altering disease. In previous work at an Immunology Clinic, she worked with those infected & affected by HIV as a Family Support Worker, Health Educator, Medication Adherence and Case Manager. Her last position with the FDH was Health Service Rep or Health Investigator, working with CDC in prevention department, and remains D.I.S certification due to this work.
Arianna currently serves as East Coast Chair of the Translatina Coalition which works to advocate for the specific needs of Latinas Transgender immigrants in US. And improve quality of life. She reaches out to the Spanish-speaking community in many ways, her favorite of which being her ongoing authorship of a Spanish Blog on Terra.com titled *Belleza sin Genero* (translated Beauty without Gender), where she writes about her perception of beauty in and around the Transgender community.