Melissa Gira Grant / Campaign Designer

Melissa Gira (“jee-rha”) Grant is a writer, educator and artist working at the intersection of sexuality, technology, feminism, and human rights. In her work with grassroots community-based organizations, she develops editorial content, education and advocacy campaigns, and offers technical assistance and workshops. With the Open Society Institute’s Sexual Health and Rights’ Project and the St. James Infirmary, Melissa has developed trainings and programs for using information and communication technologies in advocacy and movement building among sex workers. With the Tactical Tech Collective, she has produced a multimedia guide for information activists. She has also written a sex education curriculum for teenagers on MySpace, as part of a National Institute for Health funded project of the Internet Sex Information Service. She has presented her work on sexual health, human rights, and new media at the 2008 International AIDS Conference in Mexico City, the Third Wave Feminist Foundation, the University of San Francisco, the Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Sexuality, the Center for Sex and Culture, the New School for Social Research, and the UC Berkeley Labor Center.

You can follow her on Twitter as @melissagira, and on her blog at melissagira.com.