Executive Director of GenderPAC (Gender Public Advocacy Coalition) and the author of Read My Lips, GenderQueer, and Queer Theory/Gender Theory. In 2001 Riki Wilchins was selected as one of TIME Magazine's "100 Civic Innovators for the 21st Century." Wilchins was a featured columnist on gender issues for The Advocate. She received her Bachelor's from Cleveland State University and her Master's in Clinical Psychology from New School for Social Research.