Board Members

Lizette Trujillo (she/her/ella) is a Tucson small business owner and community advocate for transgender youth and families. She spends much of her time volunteering for the Southern Arizona Gender Alliance, where she and her spouse facilitate a local support group for families of transgender, gender creative/non-conforming youth. She has been SAGA’s Families Transformed Coordinator since 2018. Her local efforts have brought her national attention. She now serves as a Human Rights Campaign Parent Trans Equality Council member. Lizette is a proud mother to a 14-year-old trans child and enjoys being a mother above all else. Lizette has learned so much through her child’s experience and is committed to creating awareness and change around trans youth and their needs. Lizette serves as a SAGA Board Member.

Nicky Manlove (they/she) is a musician and educator whose work is informed by gender-expansiveness, prison and police abolition, and a commitment to community-based praxis. Nicky is the founding director of THEM Youth Ensemble, an LGBTQ+ youth performing arts program in Tucson, where she produced "ROSES: The Past, Present, and Future of Trans Resilience” and “Sacred Resilience” for TDoR 2020 and 2021. She also serves as the director of music and communications at St. Mark’s Presbyterian Church As a community-based scholar-practitioner, Nicky is a nationally-recognized authority on educational pedagogies for supporting trans young people. Their podcast “engender: singing and the wisdom of gender diversity” was produced through The Choral Commons, a media platform that provides a space for singing communities to realize the liberatory potential of the ensemble as a site of radical imagining. Nicky serves as a SAGA Board Member.

Lizette Trujillo (She/Her/Ella)

Families Transformed Coordinator

Grayce Lowe (She/They)

Desert Sisters & Gender Outlawz Facilitator

Grayce Lowe (she/they) is a photographer and digital manipulator that enjoys making and experiencing many forms of art. Over the last few years she has been focused on empowering and showing the beauty of people from the local LGBTQIA+ community. Grayce's first experience with SAGA was through its website, finding resources to begin transition. She then found the support groups and used them to strengthen her resolve to transition and also learn more about the local trans community. In the process she found friends and chosen family amongst the people in these groups, gaining a sense of belonging. Grayce endeavors to pay forward what SAGA has done for her by facilitating the Desert Sisters and Gender Outlawz support groups. She tries to make these groups a warm, inviting place for people to be their true selves and find acceptance. Grayce serves as a SAGA Board Member.