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Lynnell Stephani Long
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Lynnell Stephani Long is Black and Intersex with light brown skin. She is shown from her chin up in a white beanie and a blue hoodie with small rectangular glasses. They are on a couch wearing small hoop earrings with a white wall behind the couch.

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Lynnell Stephani Long is Black and Intersex with light brown skin. She is shown from her chin up in a white beanie and a blue hoodie with small rectangular glasses. They are on a couch wearing small hoop earrings with a white wall behind the couch.
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Lynnell is an Intersex activist & educator, photographer, and paramedic. Her passion for activism grew from being a long-term patient at a university hospital in her native Chicago. For the past 15 years the heart of Lynnell's advocacy has been in helping intersex children, preventing genital mutilation, and ending the unnecessary shame and secrecy suffered by Intersex adults. Lynnell began speaking out as a volunteer with Intersex Society of North America’s Speakers Bureau. Before long she was speaking on college campuses and educating medical professionals throughout the U.S. and Canada. She currently serves as Vice President on the Board of Directors for InterACT. She is also a member of the Board of Directors for AIS-DSD Support Group and is active on AIS-DSD's Diversity Committee. Lynnell has been featured in several documentaries, including Intersexion (2012) and One in 2000 (2006), and appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show and The Montel Williams Show. In 2015, her story was published by Narrative Inquiry of Bioethics.

Interface Project. “Lynell Stephani Long,” n.d. https://www.interfaceproject.org/lynnell-stephani-long.

Lynnell Stephani Long has been involved with the Intersex Society of North America, officially, since 2000 after she met Cheryl Chase in D.C. at GenderPac’s National Lobby Days. She is a columnist for Identity Magazine, a Chicago LGBTI magazine, where she writes on intersex. In addition to speaking locally in Chicago, Lynnell has spoken on ending intersex genital mutilation in Canada, Wisconsin, New York, Georgia, Michigan, Minnesota, Indiana, Colorado, Texas, Tennessee, and Washington, D.C. She is also a photographer, published poet, and international performance artist. Her theatrical performance of her original prose “Momma & them call me James” and “My body is my body” was videotaped and accepted in film festivals in Canada, New York, and California. Currently Lynnell is working on her poetry book entitled, “If I die before I wake!” She owns and moderates an online support group for Intersexed adults and their allies on yahoo groups

Intersex Society of North America. “Lynnell Stephani Long,” n.d. https://isna.org/about/long/.

Lynnell Stephani Long is an Intersex Advocate, Photographer, and Paramedic. She has appeared on Montel Williams and Oprah Winfrey. Her Intersex activism has taken her across the USA and Canada, educating on Intersex issues including IGM (Intersex Genitalia Mutilation). Lynnell's workshops include Intersex 101(what is Intersex?), and Intersex 201 (Intersex Allies and your LGBTI organization. Lynnell has also appeared on several Intersex documentaries including "Intersexion" with Mani Mitchell, and "One in 2000" by Ajae Clearway. Lynnell's video's "Momma and them call me James" and "My body is my body" was shown in several film festivals thanks to the wonderful Mirha-Soleil Ross. When Lynnell isn't educating on Intersex she works as a Freelance Photographer, and a Paramedic. Lynnell is currently a board member of interACT (interactadvocates.com & AIS-DSD Support Group (aisdsd.org). Please contact Lynnell for any further information about her workshops.

LinkedIn. “About,” n.d. https://www.linkedin.com/in/lynnell.