Sophia-Helene Mees De Tricht “lene” (she/her)

Lene served eight years in the U.S. Navy and two years in the U.S. Coast Guard as an operational intelligence analyst. She was discharged from the Coast Guard for being transgender in 2012, to date, the only coast guardsman to be medically discharged under the old rules. She has eight years of experience in management and organizing, including building a successful transgender rights movement within a conservative university, and has been involved in political organizing for five years. She lives in New York City.