D. Morgan Bassichis

Point Scholar: 2002-2006

Brown University
B.A., Africana Studies and English

Morgan graduated from Brown University in 2006 with a Bachelors degree in Africana Studies and English. While in high school and college, Morgan worked with a range of student organizations to address the HIV/AIDS pandemic, queerphobia, and mass imprisonment, including as a Board member of GLSEN Boston and a researcher at the Sylvia Rivera Law Project in New York City.

Morgan currently lives in San Francisco and works at Community United Against Violence (CUAV), a local organization founded in 1979 to end all forms of violence against and within LGBTQQ communities. Morgan is a member of the Transgender, Gender Variant, and Intersex Justice Project (TGIJP), and is an organizer of Transforming Justice, a national coalition dedicated to ending the cycles of poverty, criminalization, and imprisonment in transgender and gender non-conforming communities.

This alumni bio was updated with information provided in Fall 2010.