Kate Bornstein is an author, playwright and performance artist whose latest book is "Hello, Cruel World: 101 Alternatives To Suicide For Teens, Freaks, and Other Outlaws."

Other published works include the books "Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us"; "My Gender Workbook"; and the cyber-romance-action novel, "Nearly Roadkill," with co-author Caitlin Sullivan. Kate's plays and performance pieces include Strangers in Paradox, Hidden: A Gender, The Opposite Sex Is Neither, Virtually Yours, y2kate: gender virus 2000.

Kate's books are taught in over 120 colleges and universities around the world; and ze has performed hir work live on college campuses, and in theaters and performance spaces across the USA, as well as in Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, and Austria. She is currently touring colleges, youth conferences and high schools, speaking and leading workshops on the subjects of sex, gender, and alternatives to teen suicide.

Kate was born outside of Fargo, North Dakota in a log cabin ze helped hir parents build. Hir father was a Lutheran minister, and hir mother was Miss Betty Crocker, 1939. Kate has lived in the queer ghettos of Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Seattle. Ze currently lives with hir partner--sex pioneer, writer and performance artist Barbara Carrellas--in New York City, along with their pug, two cats, and two turtles.

Kate's Keynote co-presented by Nehirim: GLBT Jewish Culture and Spirituality and The Pacific Center

Moki Macías is a queer femme organizer and community planner in Atlanta, Georgia. Originally from New Mexico, Moki found her way to Atlanta, Georgia after her mother and sister moved there from New Orleans post-Katrina. She received her education in southern history and the criminal justice system while working at the Southern Center for Human Rights, a public interest law firm challenging mass incarceration and the death penalty in the southern states.

While at SCHR, Moki co-founded BLOCS – Building Locally to Organize for Community Safety – a grassroots organization dedicated to building the leadership and power of those most affected by Atlanta’s police and prison system by fighting for police accountability and developing effective strategies to create just and peaceful communities.

In 2009, Moki entered a Master’s program in City & Regional Planning at the Georgia Institute of Technology, and is writing her thesis on public safety rhetoric, the intersection of planning and criminalization tactics, and creative responses at the neighborhood-level.

For the last three years, Moki has lived with and parented her teenage sister Nandi, with the support of her partner LB, an incredible queer family, and unstoppable love from their boxer/pitt Stanford. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Mount Holyoke College and is a 2010-2011 Davis-Putter Scholarship Fund grantee.