Harlan Pruden

Pronouns: Anything said mindfully and respectfully

Harlan Pruden (First Nations Cree Nation/nēhiyo), whose mother is from the Beaver Lake Reservation and father from the Whitefish Lake Reservation, both located in northeastern Alberta – Treaty 6 territory, works with and for the Two-Spirit community locally, nationally and internationally. Currently, Harlan is a Ph.D. student at UBC and an Educator at Chee Mamuk, an Indigenous public health program at BC Centre for Disease Control. Harlan is also the Managing Editor of the TwoSpiritJournal.com and a member of the Board of Trustees for the Vancouver Public Library and was recently appointed as an Advisory Member for the Canadian Institutes of Health Research’s Institute of Gender and Health. In August 2014, I was appointed by President Obama to the US Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS (PACHA) and provided advice, information, and recommendations to the Secretary of Health & Human Services and the White House. (In December 2018, Harlan was (happily) fired/dismissed from PACHA by Mr. Trump via Fedex.)

Website: www.twospiritjournal.com
Twitter: @harlanpruden