Curriculum Vitae (Highlighted)

Awards

2006 Community Service Award, Housing Works Inc.
2004 Open Society Institute NYC Community Fellowship Grantee
2002-2004 Artist In Residency, Brooklyn Arts Exchange
2001-2002 Space Grantee, Brooklyn Arts Exchange
2001 Champion, the Annual House of Xavier “Glam Slam” by Def-Jam Poet, Emanuel Xavier
2001 Community Service Award, the Audre Lorde Project  

Select Press/Political Commentator

2007-02 Frequent On-Air Guest, OUTFM –WBAI LGBT Show, Pacifica Radio
2007-02 On-Air Guest, Wake-Up Call –WBAI am News Radio Show, Pacifica Radio
2007 Left Turn Magazine – cover story
2007-03 femmenoir –www.femmenoir.net
2006 SF Bay Times
2006 L.A. Theatre
2005-02 Gender Talk –Syndicated Radio Show
2005–03 In the Life – PBS LGBT Newsmagazine
2004-03 VelvetPark – National lesbian magazine
2004 The Advocate – National magazine
2004 The Village Voice
2003 National Pacifica Radio, Featured Interviews on various syndicated programs
2003 The Boston Globe – Review of B4T, “Actor keeps edgy play well centered”
2003 Sable – www.sablemagazine.com  

Featured Panelist/Guest Lecturer/Master of Ceremonies

2008 Panelist, Gender Identity in the African-American Community, CD Forum, Seattle, WA
2008 Lecturer, Out to Lunch Series, The University of Connecticut,, Storrs, CT
2007 Plenary Speaker, Translating Identity Conference, Burlington, Vermont
2007 Keynote Speaker, The Capital District Gay and Lesbian Community Council Community Awards Dinner, Albany NY
2007  Plenary Speaker, United States Social Forum, Liberating Gender & Sexuality featuring  Betita Martinez, Mia Mingus, Suzanne Pharr, Loretta Ross, and Andrea Smith
2007 Keynote Speaker, Eastern Oregon University
2007 Keynote Speaker, University of Oregon
2007 Keynote Speaker, University of California, Santa Cruz
2007 Keynote Speaker, University of Maryland, College Park
2007 Keynote Speaker, Building Unity Conference, Madison, WI
2007 Keynote Speaker, Trans Week at Yale University
2006 Panelist/Performer, Michelle Tea’s Radar Reading featuring Dorothy Allison, Kate Bornstein, and Nalo Hopkinson, National Queer Arts Festival,  San Francisco, CA
2006 Master of Ceremonies, L-Word Season 4 Premiere, NYC
2006 Keynote Speaker, Women’s Month University of Albany, SUNY
2006 Keynote Speaker, 12^th Annual Alaska Pride Conference
2005 Master of Ceremonies, Interactivist Info Exchange: Trans Politics, Social Change, and Justice Conference
2005 Keynote Speaker, Transforming Feminism Conference, SUNY New Paltz
2005 Speaker, Eastern Regional Womyn of Colour for Equality Conference, African Asian Latina Lesbian United
2004 Keynote Speaker, Women’s Month, Merrimack College, MA
2004 Keynote Speaker, National Arts Festival, Vassar College
2004 Keynote Speaker, LGBT Pride Month, Brown University, RI
2003 A Trans-National Dialogue: Transgender Activism in New York & Latin America, Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice, NYC
2003 National Day of Silence, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
2002 North Atlantic Training Institute for Sexual Health Educators Retreat, NY
2002 Barriers to Healthcare for the Transgenders, Bellevue Hospital, NYC
2000 Making the Links – LGBT Activists Response after 911, NYC
2000 New York City LGBT Kwanzaa Celebration
2000 QPOC (Queer People of Color) Conference, Smith College, MA
2000 Trans/Forming Gender: Sager Symposium, Swarthmore College, PA 

Contributing Writer/Essayist

2007 Suspect Thoughts: A Journal of Subversive Writing, edited by Emanuel Xavier
2007 Voices Rising: Celebrating 20 Years of Black Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Writing, Other Countries Press
2007 Marxism, Reparations and the Black Freedom Struggle, World View Forum Publishing
2004 From the Inside Out: Radical Gender Transformation, FTM and Beyond, Manic D Press
2003 The War in Colombia: Made in the USA, International Action Center
1999 Rhapsody Magazine
1997 The Evergreen Chronicles
1997 Virgin Territory 2,edited by Shar Rednour, Masquerade Books
1996  Does Your Mama Know? Edited by Lisa Moore, Red Bone

Theatrical Productions of B4T (Before Testosterone)
Written by & Starring Imani Henry

2007 Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
2007 Creative Alliance Patterson Park Theater    Baltimore, MD
2006 Gender Odyssey Conference, Seattle, WA
2006 University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH
2006 Fresh Meat  Theatre Festival 2006, San Francisco, CA
2006 Buddies in Bad Times Theater, Toronto, ON
2006 Tranny Road Show, Performances at University of Pittsburgh, Oberlin College & University of Michigan
2006 The Milwaukee Gay Arts Center, Milwaukee, WI
2006 Highways Performance Space, LA, CA
2005 Downtown Urban Theatre Festival, NYC
2005 Macalester College, St. Paul, MN
2005 Smith College, Northhampton, MA
2005 University of California, Santa Barbara
2004 HomoAGoGO LGBT Arts Festival, Olympia, WA
2004 Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY
2004 Yale University, New Haven, CT
2003 The Theatre Offensive, Boston, MA – as part of a National Performance Network Residency
2003 New York University, NYC
2003 Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA
2003 Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, Toronto, Canada
2003 The Bronx Academy of Art & Dance, NYC
2003 American Multicultural Student Agency
2003 Continental Unitarian Universalist Young Adult Weekend, Toronto, Canada
2003 True Spirit Conference, Washington, D.C.
2003 Brooklyn Arts Exchange, NYC
2002 WOW Theatre/Café, NYC
2002 Fifty Years After: Christine Jorgenson’s Legacy Symposium, Center for Lesbian & Gay Studies, City University of New York, NYC
2002 Creating Change Conference, National Conference of the National Gay & Lesbian Task Force, Portland, OR
2002 Fourth International Drag King Extravaganza, Columbus, OH

Theatrical Productions of Living in the Light
Written by & Starring Imani Henry

2007 Fresh Meat Transgender Theatre arts Festival, San Francisco, CA
2006 Rethinking Nordic Colonialism, Performances in Iceland, Greenland, Finland & The Faroe Islands
2004 Griot Artists of Color Theatre Festival, The WOW Café Theatre, NYC
2004 The Brooklyn Arts Exchange, Brooklyn, NYC

Solo Performances & Readings

2007 Dignitude, Dixon Place, NYC
2007 Trans Performance Space  -  Los Angeles Pride
2005 Queerin’ Queens, 3rd Annual LGBT Pride Celebration
2004 The Written Word, NYC Black LGBT Pride, Harlem, NY
2004 Excerpted Work: poetry and performance, Yale University, New Haven, CT
2004 Excerpted Work: poetry and performance, Trans Health Festival, Phil, PA
2003 The 16^th Annual LGBT Kwanzaa Celebration, NYC
2003 Homotext, Dixon Place, NYC
2003 Balikbayan, NYC
2003 The Moth: Urban Storytelling , "The Body", curated by Joyce Maynard, NYC
2002 MIX NYC: The 16^th Annual New York Lesbian and Gay Experimental Film/Video Festival, NYC
2002 BAXTen Awards, Brooklyn Arts Exchange, Brooklyn, NY
2002 OutWrite New York, National Writers Union, NYC
2001 Sept 29^th Stop War and End Racism Rally, Washington D.C
2000 Gender Splendor Institute, National Conference of the National Gay & Lesbian Task Force, Oakland, CA
1999 Spoken Word Jam, Apollo Theater, Harlem, NY
1997 Does Your Mama Know Book Tour, Boston, NYC, Washington DC

Ensemble Performances

2003 The Strong Go Crazy (A work-in-progress written by Henry), Brooklyn Arts Exchange, NYC
2003 Godfrey in Godfrey’s Moon, The Bowery Poetry Club, NYC 2000 The Fraud by Susana Cook, WOW Café Theatre, NYC
1999 “The Angel” in Conga Guerilla Forest by Susana Cook, WOW, NYC
1999 Hot Tamale by Susana Cook, WOW, NYC
1997 “Big Red” in Frisco Café by Renita Martin, Center Stage, Boston