Meet the Team

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Chris Hanssmann is an Assistant Professor in Women and Gender Studies at SF State University. He studies the politics of health, science, and medicine, focusing on the relations between biomedical and social movement practices. He is currently completing a book on the transnational emergence of transgender health care as an institutionalizing field and a public good. He works collaboratively with researchers and activists in feminist, queer, and transfeminist health justice movements and recently completed a collectively authored book on feminist science studies and political action. He has published articles in Transgender Studies Quarterly, Medical Anthropology Quarterly, and Social Science and Medicine.

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Kate is an instructor of Social Justice Studies at Skyline College and faculty lecturer in Women and Gender Studies (WGS) at San Francisco State University. Her current research explores how the privatization of public services under late capitalism compounds social justice issues such as unequal access to healthcare and data privacy.

Kate began their work with the Feminist Health Justice Collective at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic while completing their Master’s in WGS. Working in collaboration with faculty and students from across the university, she helped to define a vision of feminist health justice through designing the FHJ Database.

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Azisa (Zi) Todd was born and raised in Oakland and attributes many of her academic and community organizing experiences to the Oakland public education system. Upon graduating from high school, Azisa went on to UCLA where she served as a member then director of BlaQue, UCLA’s Black LGBTQ+ organization. Azisa developed and facilitated mandated anti-racism/Blackness workshops at UCLA, organized cross-campus conferences, and held various public speaking roles across California. Having since graduated from UCLA with a bachelor's degree in Gender Studies with Departmental Honors, Azisa decided to jump back into academia and pursue a Master of Public Health at San Francisco State University.

Azisa Todd also serves as an education and training coordinator within San Mateo County. In this role, Azisa coordinates and leads LGBTQ+ awareness trainings for various San Mateo County health systems and local organizations. Azisa has more than 5 years of training experience in the field of educational curriculum development and training facilitation. Passionate about developing engaging, comprehensive, and resource-filled curricula, Azisa provides outstanding services that meet the needs of each client served. Azisa strives to advance her skills in community health with the hopes of obtaining a DrPH in the near future to teach what they have learned to college-level students.

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Krysia is an undergraduate student at San Francisco State University studying Public Health and Women and Gender Studies. After previously studying biology with the intention of becoming a healthcare provider, she realized that the ways in which she wanted to help others couldn’t be done within the current confinements of the country’s health care system. She has found a home working for the Women and Gender Studies Department at SFSU, and hopes to be the best ally she can be to those whose voices need to be raised for others to hear. She plans to pursue a graduate degree after SFSU, with the hopes of delving deeper into her passion for intersectional reproductive health justice, comprehensive sex education and rights for parents.

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Thushani is a fourth-year undergraduate student, pursuing double majors in Political Science and Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies at UC Davis. With a passion for understanding the intricacies of politics and society, she is committed to actively participating in transformative efforts to create a more equitable and sustainable future.

Currently, they are the lead intern of the edit/blog/publishing team at the Culture C.O.-O.P. and previously, they had developed and presented an autoethnographic essay at the 2022 UC Davis Feminist, Queer, and Trans Undergraduate Research Symposium. As a student researcher for the Feminist Research Institute, Thushani will engage in database management with the Feminist Health Justice Collective.