Marnie Florin, The Advocate

Today I’m talking with Marnie Florin, a Global Process Manager at Google who also holds diversity trainings around the nation. Marnie is the co-creator of a two-person Trans 101 training team at Google. Marnie previously served in the Peace Corps in Gambia, and upon returning to the U.S. did advocacy work at the LGBT center in Los Angeles. Join us as Marnie shares their path in the LGBT community, their career development and their diversity training work today. 00:15 Intro to Marnie Florin 1:07 Marnie’s time in Gambia and getting started in the LGBT space 9:57 Coming out as gay and accepting oneself as gay 16:19 Coming to terms with being trans 18:15 Returning to the US from Gambia and finding community 21:00 Growing up gay and societal pressure 26:16 Marnie’s work at the LGBT center in LA and using male or female pronouns 31:58 Starting business school at Columbia and choosing gender-neutral pronouns 35:05 Marnie starts Trans 101 training at Columbia and Google For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy