Yoseñio Lewis has been a social justice activist since the age of 13. He is currently involved in several progressive organizations, including: the Board of Directors of The Woodhull Freedom Foundation, Board of Directors of Unid@s (the National Latino LGBT Human Rights Organization), the Community Advisory Board for the Center for Excellence for Transgender HIV Prevention, and the San Francisco AIDS Office Research Division's Transgender Community Consultants Working Group. He is also a co-founder of Big Boys' Ink™ Productions, a theatrical writing and performing company, and was on the Board of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force for six years. He has been a subject of several documentaries, including Christopher Lee's "Trappings of Transhood," the television channel A&E's "Transgender Revolution," "The Believers", a documentary about the Transcendence Gospel Choir "Transforming Healthcare."