Author: Kyla Bender-Baird

Kyla Bender-Baird is the Research and Programs Manager for the National Council for Research on Women, where she acts as the in-house researcher, manages social media outreach, is the managing editor of the Council’s blog, and assists in the development and implementation of programming. Kyla holds an M.S. in Women’s Studies from Towson University and a B.A. in Sociology from Principia College. Her forthcoming book, Transgender Employment Experiences: Gendered Perceptions and the Law (SUNY Press), examines the holes in policy protections and their impact on the workplace experiences of self-identified transgender people. You can read her work in the second edition of Getting Bi (Bisexual Resource Center), Privilege and Prejudice: Twenty Years with the Invisible Knapsack (Cambridge Scholars Publishing), and Curve Magazine. Originally from Oregon, Kyla has been a proud resident of Brooklyn, NY for three years.