Author Event – TRAILBLAZER by Mary Ann Horton

Join activist, author, and former Stonewall board member, Mary Ann Horton and hear excerpts from her memoir, TRAILBLAZER.

What to expect:

The evening will kick off with remarks from Mary Ann, followed by reading a section from her memoir. After the reading, enjoy a beverage from the bar (card only) and purchase your own copy of TRAILBLAZER while Mary Ann is signing copies.

About the author:

Mary Ann Horton, PhD, is a transgender activist, computer systems architect, Internet pioneer, entrepreneur, author, and speaker. In 1997, she persuaded Lucent Technologies to become the first Fortune 500 company to add transgender-inclusive language to its nondiscrimination policy, and to add coverage for transition care and surgery. Her work, which was soon replicated at Apple and Avaya, led Out & Equal Workplace Associates to present her with the 2001 Trailblazer Outie Award.

Mary Ann founded several transgender social and activist groups. She conducted a research study that proved the addition of transgender medical coverage would cost companies virtually nothing. She has been featured in the Daily Beast, Out Magazine, Google Arts and Culture, Salon, Diversity Factor, SHRM, L-Mag, Nokia, Faces of Open Source, and Out TV.

Mary Ann earned her PhD in Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley in 1981, where she created the first binary email attachment tool and led Usenet, an early social media network. At Bell Labs, she made email easier to use, brought hfre@qbznva.pbz email to the have-nots, and published Internet standards for email and Usenet.

She is the author of technical reference books including Portable C Software, and of the viral Internet parody, “How the Grinch Stole Marriage.”

Trailblazer is her debut memoir. Visit her website maryannhorton.com

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