Our work to create safe spaces was featured on CBS 2 New York for Pride Month, with Trans Mentor Project mentee Stellan and Executive Director Wren Rhodes sharing.

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"We talk about how resilient trans youth are, but we don’t talk about the fact that many have had no choice but to build resiliency in order to survive," writes Trans Mentor Project mentor & intern, Sof Voet, in their article published by NowThis.

Sam & Devorah Foundation’s work to create safe spaces was mentioned by Lady Gaga’s mother in The New York Times.

Executive Director Wren Rhodes moderated a panel with PFLAG, LGBT Tech, CenterLink, and Family Online Safety Institute about empowering LGBTQ youth online.

Sam & Devorah Foundation was featured in CBS News for winning a grant from the Born This Way Foundation.

Trans Mentor Project was featured as a resource for trans youth in The 2023 Transgender Family Handbook, published by NY Mag’s The Cut.

Two of our Board members were featured in The New York Times.

Voices from the Community
Accepting Change: Could trans artist Christine Howey's story give strength to others? by Andrea Simakis.

In August 2015, Beth Price made plans to go to a little theater in Greenwich Village to see “Exact Change,” the one-woman show by transgender Cleveland artist Christine Howey.

Trans retreat to memorialize Sam Price. Parents to establish ‘rejuvenating safe space’ for youth by Johanna Ginsburg

Sam Harel Price, 21, died on March 24 following a suicide attempt on her 21st birthday. A junior at Oberlin College, she was majoring in Jewish studies and hoped to become a rabbi. Price, who grew up in Maplewood, celebrated becoming bar mitzva at Congregation Beth El in South Orange and graduated from Columbia High School in Maplewood. Last year she came out to her parents, Beth Dorogusker and Adam Price, as transgender.