Tiffany Jade Munroe (she/her/hers) is a Black Trans woman from Guyana. After experiencing homelessness and years of emotional and physical violence, she emigrated to New York City when her parents abandoned her. As an immigrant and a Trans woman, Tiffany struggled to navigate and access healthcare and immigration services until she was connected with the Caribbean Equality Project (CEP).
Tiffany is the Caribbean Equality Project's Trans Justice Coordinator, organizing trans-focused community events, programming, and actions. She supports the organization's Food Justice program by volunteering at its monthly pop-up food pantries, which provide LGBTQ+ people, immigrant families, seniors, single-parent households, and HIV-impacted people with culturally-responsive groceries and fresh produce. When the COVID-19 pandemic and the Black Lives Matter movement collided, Tiffany amplified her advocacy for Black Trans rights, immigration reform, protections for asylum seekers, and civic engagement.
Tiffany's advocacy for Trans women, sex workers, and gender-expansive people has been fearless. Her visibility at the 2020 Brooklyn Trans Liberation Rally and March was featured in The New York Times and Teen Vogue. She testified at the New York State Assembly hearing in 2021 to repeal the "Walking While Trans Ban." She participated in the City Council's hearing on Resolution 1487 ("Recognizing November 20th annually as Transgender Day of Remembrance and March 31st annually as Transgender Day of Visibility in the City of NY”) in 2020. In 2021, Tiffany spoke at the first commemoration of the Transgender Day of Remembrance at Queens Borough Hall, opening for Queens Borough President Donovan Richards. She said, "we deserve city-wide recognition and more robust laws to end workplace discrimination, access to affirming healthcare options, and immigration services to protect undocumented transgender people and asylum seekers."
In 2022, as part of the Queens Museum's Year of Uncertainty, Tiffany was featured in the Caribbean Equality Project's Live Pridefully: Love and Resilience within Pandemics, an interdisciplinary exhibition that celebrates queer and trans Caribbean resilience through a racial justice lens, while fostering critical conversations related to pride, migration, surviving colliding pandemics, and coming out narratives.
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