Masen Davis was born on March 29,1971 and is an American transgender rights activist who is currently the interim executive director of Transgender Europe, and was previously the executive director of Freedom for All Americans and of the Transgender Law Center.
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Masen Davis earned his bachelor of arts degree at Northwestern University in 1993, living in Chicago from 1989 to 1995.
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Masen Davis earned his masters of social welfare at the University of California Los Angeles in 2002.
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Masen Davis came out as a transgender man in 1998 while in California.
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Masen Davis began his career working at Horizons Community Services, now Center on Halsted, in Chicago.
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Masen Davis moved to California in 1995, joining the United Way of Greater Los Angeles, first as community investment officer and later as development director.
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In 2007, Masen Davis was appointed Executive Director of the Transgender Law Center, where his work helped eliminate insurance exclusions for transgender Californians, as well as helped pass the School Success and Opportunity Act to improve access to facilities and activities for transgender California students.
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In 2012, Davis completed Harvard University's John F Kennedy School of Government program for Senior Executives in State and Local Government as a David Bohnett Foundation LGBTQ Victory Institute Leadership Fellow.
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From November 2017 to 2019, Masen Davis was the CEO for Freedom for All Americans.
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Masen Davis is currently the interim executive director of Transgender Europe, an organization with affiliates in 46 countries, throughout Europe, Central Asia, as well as in Russia and Iceland.
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In 2019, Masen Davis was recognized with a Trans Equality Now Award by the National Center for Transgender Equality.
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In 2022, Masen Davis was appointed executive director of Funders Concerned About AIDS, which tracks and mobilizes philanthropic efforts to end the HIV epidemic.
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Masen Davis coauthored with Kris Hayashi an essay on the Transgender Law Center published in The SAGE Encyclopedia of Trans Studies.