About Us
Sue Hyde
Sue Hyde (Principal) cut her social justice organizing teeth in grade school when she launched a student newspaper. In high school, Sue organized an all-school assembly on May 1, 1970, to mark a national day of student protest of the escalating war in Vietnam. She and two friends also challenged the sexism of the “dress code” that required female students to wear dresses, skirts, and other “appropriate attire” to high school.
In 1974, Sue, as a member of the Webster College Women’s Union (now Webster University), organized a weekend program to showcase the work of women artists, all of whom were lesbians. From 1974 to 1982, Sue and the Red Tomato Production company (aka Tomato Productions) organized 47 events in St. Louis featuring the lesbian stars of the “women’s music” movement.
Fast forward to 1988: Sue, the late Urvashi Vaid, and staff at the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force launched and established the annual Creating Change Conference. Sue became Conference Director in 1994 and held that post until 2018 when Creating Change convened for its 30th year.
After a four-year stint as Executive Director of the Wild Geese Foundation, a Boston-area family foundation, Sue joined the 22nd Century Initiative to lead and manage two national conferences. The 22nd Century Conference: Forging A People-Powered Democracy gathered in July 2023 and in June 2025. The 2025 Conference attracted more than 1,000 participants who feasted on a four-day program in Atlanta. Sue and colleagues planned and presented four plenary sessions and over 100 workshop sessions, all aiming to strengthen and expand the pro-democracy movement in the U.S. This seminal event was Sue’s final act as a staff member/Conference Director.
Sue’s vast experience in event planning and social justice manifestation is now available to colleagues and partners via Eventful Social Justice LLC. Please complete this intake form to connect.
Jaime M. Grant
Jaime M. Grant, Ph.D., is an Irish American expert facilitator, grassroots researcher, and activist who has been engaged in LGBTQ+, women’s, and racial justice movements since the early 90s. A seasoned curriculum developer, Dr. Grant honed her skills in the early aughts, creating rotating week-long leadership training intensives for the awardees of the Ford Foundation’s Leadership for A Changing World Program, which was colloquially referred to as the Mac Genius Award for Grassroots Organizers.
For over a decade (2010–2021), she produced and directed the sexual liberation track of the National LGBTQ+ Task Force’s Creating Change Conference, nurturing a faculty of more than 50 presenters and foregrounding participatory, transformational learning techniques in the annual offering of a day-long institute and more than a dozen unique workshops.
As a young organizer, Grant spearheaded a number of transformational projects including founding the lesbian network of the Pennsylvania Coalition Against Rape (1987); founding a queer feminist addiction recovery group in Washington, DC (1992–1997); co-creating the Kitchen Table Women of Color Press Transition Coalition to preserve its ground-breaking legacy (1995–1998); co-creating the Women and Organizing Documentation Project with the Center for Third World Organizing (1997–1999); serving on the board of the National Youth Advocacy Coalition (1997–1999); and establishing a pilot program for global mental health advocates for the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI) (2000).
In the 2010s, she served as principal investigator for the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force’s ground-breaking reports: Outing Age 2010; and Injustice at Every Turn: A Report of the National Transgender Discrimination Survey (2011). In 2018, she co-launched the National LGBTQ Women’s Community Survey with Urvashi Vaid, creating one of the most comprehensive data sets of LGBTQ+ women’s experience in the US. In 2023, she published the project’s first report: We Never Give Up the Fight.
From 2010 to the present, she has produced her collaborative workshop, Desire Mapping, at community centers and universities throughout the United States and human rights convenings around the globe, including Russia, China, South Korea, Vietnam, the Philippines, Cyprus, Kenya, South Africa, New Zealand, and Mauritius. Tackling issues of sexual violence, resistance, healing, and the right to pleasure, Dr. Grant worked with local activists to translate the workshop into local languages and sexual cultures.
Dr. Grant offers her facilitation expertise via her training workshop, Facilitating Genius, at human rights and behavioral health conferences across the nation.
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