Presenter
Dr. An Goldbauer is a trans-identified male and serves in numerous capacities as a volunteer, professor, chair, director of student advisement, consultant, anti-human trafficking expert and photojournalist. He is an advisory board member at the International Institute of Clinical Sexology. He has contributed a chapter, Socially Stabilising Communities for Human Trafficking Survivors and Restructuring The Informed Consent to Treatment to Reduce Narratives of Regret, featured in Contemporary Topics in Patient Safety—Volume 3.
He is a transgender care consultant, diversity trainer, best-practices and prevention-curriculum facilitator, and effective case manager for survivors.
Dr. An previously served as a member of the Student Affairs Community Council at the University of North Florida (UNF), as a board member and media specialist at the AIDS Memorial Project of Northeast Florida, and as a consultant at the Delores Barr Weaver Policy Center.
He is a member of the National Press Photographers Association (NPPA) and the American Society of Media Photographers, a former radio host with Radio Reading and a past board member at WJCT Public Broadcasting, an NPR affiliate at 89.9 FM in Jacksonville, Florida.
His works have been displayed at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in Jacksonville, Florida, featuring political leaders in an exhibit titled “In Honor of the Chair.” He held a photo essay exhibit, Queer Works, at UNF’s Lufrano Gallery in the Intercultural Center, in tandem with Dr. Thomas Serwatka’s book launch titled Queer Questions, Clear Answers, a former University of Northeast Florida vice president. The exhibit Queer Works included gay rights activist Frank Martin Gill, who partnered with the ACLU and sued for the right to adopt two boys in his care. He served as a speaker at the 2014 Florida Collegiate Pride Conference at UNF—The Role of Media in LGBTQIA.
Before his transition, his work was featured in Arbus, Jacksonville’s arts and business magazine. He is working on his film project, Message for Parents, a documentary for parents with transgender, intersex, and gender-diverse youth. He has conducted over 60 interviews, including pediatric endocrinologists, child psychologists, therapists, trans pediatricians and therapists, attorneys, parents and trans youth. He serves as a book editor for gay and queer playwrights.
Co-presenter
Zander Keig is an award-winning Licensed Clinical Social Worker, motivational speaker, family caregiver and social care educator who presents sought-after organizational well-being workshops.
Zander has a unique perspective as a fifty-nine-year-old first-generation American of Mexican heritage (Latino), childhood TBI survivor, and neurodivergent first-generation college graduate with a BA in Interpersonal Communication (1999), MS in Conflict Analysis and Resolution (2003), MTS in Theological Studies (2004) and an MSW in Clinical Social Work (2012) with subject-matter expertise in conflict mitigation, social care, spiritual discernment and mental fitness.
