Brookline woman is the first openly transgender White House official
A Brookline woman broke barriers and made history on Tuesday when she became the first openly transgender woman to join the White House staff.
The Obama Administration hired Raffi Freedman-Gurspan as an outreach and recruitment director for presidential personnel in the White House Office of Presidential Personnel, WBUR reports.
Freedman-Gurspan was adopted from Honduras and grew up in Brookline. She previously worked as a policy advisor for the National Center for Transgender Equality’s Racial and Economic Justice Initiative, where she focused on advocating for improved conditions and treatment of transgender minorities.
Former Rep. Carl Sciortino, who Freedman-Gurspan previously worked for, described her as “a role model.’’
Read the full WBUR story here.
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