Michelle Esther O’Brien is a practicing psychotherapist and teacher. She received her PhD from the Department of Sociology at New York University. She teaches Queer Studies as part-time faculty at NYU’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study. Her dissertation focused on how capitalism shapes LGBTQ organizing in New York City. Her writing has appeared in Social Movement Studies, Work, Employment & Society, Commune, Homintern, Endnotes, Pinko, and Invert.
Michelle spent three and a half years coordinating New York City Trans Oral History Project through the New York Public Library. Michelle received her Masters of Social Work from the Hunter College School of Social Work, CUNY. She spent several years working in HIV/AIDS service agencies, as a community organizer, support group facilitator and case worker. She served as the Executive Director of Housing Here and Now, at the time the leading coalition of tenant rights organizations in New York City.
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