Interviewed about the presidential admistration’s attacks on trans people by James Paleologopoulos for WAMC, the Albany-based public radio station, on February 13, 2025

Interviewed about their research on the Common App by Elin Johnson for BestColleges, October 9, 2024

Author, The Conversation column, “Fewer College Students Indicate They Are Nonbinary Amid Backlash,” September 11, 2024

Featured in a Times Union story, “Census Finds Western Mass. Leading Region for Same-Sex Female Households,” by H. Rose Schneider, September 18, 2024

One of the higher education leaders asked to provide a presidential debate question for Inside Higher Ed, “Higher Ed Has Questions for Biden and Trump,” June 27, 2024

Interviewed for Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, “End of the Rainbow?” on anti-DEI policies and legislation, by Lois Elfman, June 17, 2024

Interviewed for Time, “What to Know About the Trans Pride Flag” by Solcyre Burga, June 6, 2024

Interviewed for Insight into Diversity, “Beyond Acceptance: Transforming LGBTQIA+ Student Mental Health,” Courtney Mullins and Nikki Brahm, May 28, 2024

Interviewed for The Philadelphia Inquirer, “This Women’s College Declared Its Doors Open to Nonbinary Students. And More Enrolled,” by Susan Snyder, November 26, 2023

Interviewed for Mass Live, “UMass Poll: 60% of Adults Believe Gender Cannot Be Changed,” by Will Katcher, June 23, 2023

Q & A with Harvard Business Publishing, “How to Support Transgender Students: Actions Faculty Can Take to Help Trans Students Feel Welcome,” June 1, 2023

Interviewed for Mass Live, “Trans Community ‘Shocked’ by Amherst School Report as Officials Probe Incidents,” by Will Katcher, May 11, 2023

Interviewed by Scripps News Live for a segment on Wellesley students voting to admit trans men and nonbinary students, March 16, 2023

Interviewed for the New York Times, “At Wellesley College, Students Vote To Admit Trans Men,” by Vimal Patel, March 14, 2023; and for a similar AP story, “Wellesley College Students Call for Admission of Trans Men,” by Mark Pratt, March 15, 2023

Author, The Conversation column, “College Students Are Increasingly Identifying Beyond ‘She’ and ‘He,'” August 19, 2022

Author, The Conversation column, “Legal Fights Persist over Policies that Require Teachers to Refer to Trans Students by Their Chosen Pronouns,” June 15, 2022

Interviewed live by CBS News for a segment on “Where Do College Campuses Fall Short for LGBTQ+ Students?”, June 6, 2022

Interviewed for Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, “Erased from the Record: Queerness at Conservative Christian Schools” by Liann Herder, June 15, 2022

Interviewed for USA Today, “‘Completely Different from High School’: How Colleges Are Making Space for LGBTQ Students” by Chris Quintana, June 5, 2022

Interviewed for Insight into Diversity, “Single-Sex Colleges Lag Behind in Institutional Support for Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Students” by Mariah Stewart, April 18, 2022

Interviewed for Diverse Issues in Higher Education, “Transgender Athletes Face Greater Scrutiny in Gender Divided Sports” by Liann Herder, February 25, 2022

Interviewed for Inside Higher Ed, “Gender Identity Norms Shift, and Institutions Move to Reflect Them,” by Suzanne Smalley, January 25, 2022

Interviewed for the USA Today column, “It’s 2022: Time to start calling people by their preferred pronouns,” by Steven Petrow, January 19, 2022

Interviewed for USA Today, “This is America: How society’s views on gender impact relationships,” by Petruce Jean-Charles and Alison Cutler, October 8, 2021

Author, The Conversation column, “Change to College Application Represents a Step Forward in How Colleges Can Better Support Trans Students,” August 5, 2021

Interviewed for the UMass Dignity and Respect in Action Podcast, March 4, 2021

Interviewed for Refinery29, “Mental Health Care Is Crucial for Trans People — So Why Is It So Hard to Find?” by Molly Longman, November 19, 2020

Interviewed for College Confidential, “How to Support Trans Students during the College Application Process,” by Torrey Kim, November 10, 2020

Featured in Vanity Fair, “Eight Queer Podcasts to Listen to During Pride Month and Beyond,” June 24, 2020

Interviewed for the Chronicle of Higher Education, “Covid-19 Sent LGBTQ Students Back to Unsupportive Homes. That Raises the Risk They Won’t Return,” by Sarah Brown, April 24, 2020  

Interviewed for the Daily Hampshire Gazette, “‘X” Marks the Spot: RMV Offers Non-Binary Gender Options on IDs,” by Greta Jochem, November 14, 2019  

Interviewed for Mass Live, “Merriam-Webster Revises Definition of ‘They’ to Include Use as Gender-Neutral, Singular Pronoun,” by Jim Kinney, September 18, 2019

Interviewed for Inside Higher Ed, “Trans Students Often Struggle with Mental Health,” by Jeremy Bauer-Wolf, August 20, 2019

Interviewed for WGBH (Boston), “Transgender and Non-Binary Students Face ‘Enormous’ Disparities in Mental Health Problems, Study Finds,” by Cristina Quinn, August 20, 2019

Interviewed for the Chronicle of Higher Education, “How Should Professors Cite Their Transgender Colleagues’ Work Produced Under Past Identities? Academe Is Trying to Figure It Out,” Grace Elletson, July 12, 2019

Interviewed for the Media Sanctuary Podcast, “Spirit of the Suffragettes with Genny Beemyn,” May 17, 2019

Interviewed for the Washington Post, “This Pioneering Howard Dean Lived with Another Woman in the 1930s. Were They Lovers?” by Samantha Schmidt, March 26, 2019 

Radio interview for NPR-affiliate WAMU (Washington, D.C.), “‘I Can Exist Here’: On Gender Identity, Some Colleges Are Opening Up,” by Jessica Yarmosky, March 21, 2019

Interviewed for the AACRAO Podcast, “How to Support Trans and Non-Binary Students in the Admissions and Registrar Offices,” January 25, 2019

Interviewed for Insight into Diversity, “Gender-Inclusive Housing Promotes Safe, Welcoming Campus for All Students,” by Sarah Edwards, January 14, 2019

Interviewed for NBC News, “She Testified against Larry Nassar. Now This Survivor Is Fighting for Change,” by Julie Compton, October 31, 2018  

Interviewed for the Teaching Tolerance Podcast, “The Experiences of Trans People,” October 2, 2018  (Note: Teaching Tolerance is now Learning for Justice.)

Interviewed for Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, “More Women’s Colleges Admitting Transgender Students,” by Collin Binkley, September 5, 2017 

Featured in The Conversation, “The Transgender Bathroom Controversy: Four Essential Reads,” by Kaitlyn Chantry, February 23, 2017

Interviewed for the Washington Post, “Students Were Told to Select Gender Pronouns. One Chose ‘His Majesty’ to Protest ‘Absurdity,’” by Lindsey Bever, October 7, 2016 

Interviewed by the Cincinnati Enquirer, “UC Makes Gender-Inclusive Housing Feel Like Home,” by Kate Murphy, October 2, 2016

Interviewed for Reuters, “College Dorms a New Front in U.S. Battle over Transgender Rights,” by Scott Malone, June 10, 2016

Interviewed for the Washington Post, “LGBT-Who? Decoding the Ever-Changing Acronym,” by Ryan Carey-Mahoney, June 10, 2016

Interviewed for the Boston Globe, “What Should Restroom Signs Say? Answers Aren’t Simple,” by Beth Teitell, May 31, 2016 

Author, The Conversation column, “Why Trans Rights Nationwide Are Only a Matter of Time,” May 21, 2016

Interviewed for Insight into Diversity, “Words Matter: Affirming Gender Identity through Language,” by Rebecca Prinster, May 18, 2016

Interviewed for The Washington Post, “Don’t Know What ‘Genderqueer’ Is? Meet Someone Who Identifies that Way,” by Steven Petrow, May 9, 2016

Interviewed for the USA Today article, “Common Application, Universal College Application Add Gender Identity Question,” by Abbey Schubert, May 9, 2016  

Interviewed by the Albany Times Union, “New Front in Bias Fight,” by Bethany Bump, April 23, 2016

Interviewed by University Business, “States, Colleges Offer Varying Rights on Transgender Bathroom Use,” by Ray Bendici, April 20, 2016

Interviewed for the Globe and Mail (Canada), “Their Story: ‘I Want to Be Somewhere between Two Fixed Points of Gender,’” by Sarah Hampson, January 29, 2016 

Interviewed for the New York Times, “In All-Gender Restrooms, the Signs Reflect the Times,” by Aimee Lee Ball, November 8, 2015  

Interviewed for Inside Higher Ed, “The ‘Invisible’ One in Four,” by Jake New, September 25, 2015

Interviewed for CBS News, “He? She? Ze? Colleges Add Gender-Free Pronouns for Students,” September 18, 2015

Interviewed for the Boston Globe, “Harvard Allows Students to Pick New Gender Pronouns,” by Astead W. Herndon, September 2, 2015

Interviewed by the Washington Blade, “Caitlyn Jenner: American Hero or ‘Arrogant’ Dilettante?” August 19, 2015

Interviewed for the Boston Globe, “Wellesley College to Accept Transgender Women,” by Laura Krantz, March 5, 2015 

Interviewed for Oxford University Press Blog, “Transgender Culture and Community, Now and Then,” February 19, 2015

Interviewed for the Santa Fe New Mexican, “Mayor’s Call for Gender-Neutral Bathrooms Spurs Misconceptions,” by Daniel J. Chacón, February 7, 2015

Interviewed for the Boston Globe, “Simmons College Welcomes Transgender Students,” by Matt Rocheleau, November 6, 2014

Interviewed for the Christian Science Monitor, “With Preferred Pronouns, LGBT College Students Test Limits of Language,” by Lisa Leff, November 30, 2013 

Interviewed for Time, “‘I Am Chelsea Manning’: Why Gender Isn’t So Easy to Identify,” by Maia Szalavitz, August 22, 2013  

Interviewed for Inside Higher Ed, “Broadening the Transgender Agenda,” by Allie Grasgreen, September 18, 2013

Interviewed for Time, “‘I Am Chelsea Manning’: Why Gender Isn’t So Easy to Identify,” by Maia Szalavitz, August 22, 2013  

Interviewed by U.S. News and World Report, “Coy Mathis Case May Set Precedent on Transgender Kids and Bathrooms,” by Elizabeth Flock, June 24, 2013

Interviewed for CNN, “Male, Female or Neither? Gender Identity Debated at Same-Sex Colleges,” by Stephanie Chen, November 8, 2010

Interviewed by the New York Times, “When Girls Will Be Boys,” by Alissa Quart, March 16, 2008