TIC is proud to present the...
2009 Plenary Speakers:
Owen Daniel-McCarter & Jakob VanLammeren!
TIC Past and Present:
Two Founders Share How TIC Changed UVM and Their Lives
Owen Daniel-McCarter ('04) and Jakob VanLammeren ('05) are proud to say that the University of Vermont was where the world of queer
and trans activism, anti-oppression, fighting to win, resilience, and resistance began to inform their lives. They will talk about
the personal and political passions that incited the first Translating Identities Conference in 2003, and how seven years later their
personal and political revolutions continue to grow and transform.
Biographies:
Jakob VanLammeren '05 facilitates a creative writing group at the Broadway Youth Center, a center for LGBTQA youth and allies ages
14-24 who are experiencing homelessness and/or are street-based, and is an English tutor at Richard J. Daley College. He is a
co-founder and collective member of the Write to Win Collective, a penpal correspondence project for transgender, transsexual,
gender-variant, and gender non-conforming people surviving inside prisons in Illinois, and is a volunteer for the Transformative
Justice Law Project of Illinois. He was a co-founder of the Translating Identity Conference, and served as a committee member from
2003-2006. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in English from the University of Vermont in 2005, and received his Master of
Poetry degree from Bennington College in 2008. He currently lives, works, and dreams in Chicago, Illinois.
Owen Daniel-McCarter, Esq. '04 is one of the founding collective members of the Transformative Justice Law Project of Illinois
which provides free, zealous, life-affirming, and gender-affirming holistic criminal legal services to low-income and street-based
transgender and gender non-conforming people targeted by the criminal legal system in Chicago. There, he is also a volunteer attorney
for Cabrini Green Legal Aid, First Defense Legal Aid, and the Young Women's Empowerment Project, as well as an adjunct instructor at
DePaul University. Back in the day, he was a co-founder of the Translating Identity Conference, a DJ at WRUV, and stayed up all night
making art in Williams Hall... not so secretly, he still misses it.
