2026 Participant Biographies

Sarah Moore (she/her) is a public-safety educator with decades of frontline experience in law enforcement, emergency medicine, and trauma-informed response. She comes to this work as a transgender woman who has spent much of her career examining how systems of authority—particularly policing and emergency response—can create harm when identity, power, and misunderstanding intersect.

Sarah is clear-eyed about the fact that many transgender, non-binary, and gender-diverse people have had negative, dismissive, or unsafe experiences with law enforcement and other institutions. Her work does not seek to excuse those harms or minimize lived experiences. Instead, she focuses on transparency, practical preparation, and harm reduction—sharing realistic information so people can make informed choices about their own safety.

She has trained professionals and community members nationwide on de-escalation, trauma-informed communication, and victim-centered practices, and has collaborated extensively with advocacy organizations supporting survivors of violence. In these workshops, Sarah’s goal is to offer tools—not rules—and to support transgender people in navigating real-world situations with greater confidence, autonomy, and dignity while living authentically.