Somjen Frazer is a senior policy analyst at the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Policy Institute and also owns a consulting company that helps nonprofits conduct research and evaluation projects. She is the author of numerous research articles and reports on public health, gender and sexuality studies, criminal justice and other topics. She used her Rhodes Scholarship to conduct a participatory evaluation of the implementation of laws against homophobic and transphobic hate crimes as well as completing a master’s in sociology at Oxford University. She was also a John Kenneth Galbraith Scholar in Inequality and Social Policy at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government and a Cornell Presidential Research Scholar. As an activist researcher, she works to connect social science to social change and is particularly interested in community-based projects.

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