Nancy Nangeroni is a longtime transgender community activist, writer, musician, media producer and host on issues of gender. An MIT-degreed engineer, she joined the emerging transgender community in 1990, transitioned in 1993, and soon became a lead voice in the transgender movement, serving a stint as director of the International Foundation for Gender Education. She has partnered personally and in activism since 1998 with Gordene O. MacKenzie, author of Transgender Nation. Nancy founded in 1995, and co-hosted with Gordene thru 2006, the leading radio talk show about gender and transgender issues called "GenderTalk" which aired weekly on WMBR-FM in Cambridge, MA, and continues worldwide via the Web at www.gendertalk.com. She is currently chair of the Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition, as well as executive producer of a new video series, GenderVision. Nancy received the transgender community's highest award for lifetime contribution in 2005 from IFGE. Nancy has been involved with the transgender rights movement for the last 18 years.