Saturday, September 17, 2016


Celia Sandhya Daniels
Transgender activist
E: celiasandaniels@gmail.com





Celia is an Asian Indian trans women of color who is currently an activist, advocate, supporter, motivator, musician and a film maker. She currently resides in California. Celia volunteers for many non profit organizations, churches and support groups that empowers the transgender community. Having been brought up in a conservative Christian home, she writes and speaks about her real struggles as a child and the challenges she faced in her faith and gender. As a Transgender advocate, she promotes understanding and acceptance through her videos, short films and blogs.
She is a mentor, advisor and friend to various transgender folks across the globe. She is one of the first few Indian trans women in late 90’s, who started

various online forums to encourage, discuss and advice various trans related issues specifically for Indians. Probably the first Indian Christian trans women to openly



Having worked with top fortune 500 companies, she comes with a corporate and business management background that equips her well to relate to the concerns of business in relation to diversity and transgender inclusion, and she is adept at enabling people to feel comfortable as they come to understand transgender people. She has a Post Graduate Degree in Computer Sciences from a reputed university in India.
She was instrumental in starting a Transgender group through United Church of Church in her community and she serves as a volunteer and advisor at two PFLAG groups in her community. She is highly enterprising and brings a wonderful blend of ethnicity, religion and corporate experience in her public talks and presentations.

Celia is available as a public speaker in a variety of public settings. She can be contacted at celiasandaniels@gmail.com

Links :

Blog

Fight for acceptance ( Public speaking )

Transcend – From Closet 2 Cloud  ( Her motivational website )

Celia’s video story - Transcend


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