Una Nowling, a University alumna, was the keynote speaker for Trans Awareness Week, which was hosted by the Center for Sexuality and Gender Diversity.
“November is trans awareness month, and then this week is trans awareness week,” Chloe Secor, graduate assistant for the Center for Sexuality and Gender Diversity, said, “and in honor of that, we thought it would be really pertinent to bring a trans speaker to campus.”
Nowling is a transgender woman, and shared her experiences of her transition to the audience, both in and out of her workplace, in the STEM field.
“Una Nowling is a woman of many, many talents,” Secor said.
Nowling is an engineering consultant at Black & Veatch, and a technical writer, and adjunct professor at UMKC. She also hosts a radio show called Trans Talk, which airs on every fourth Saturday on 90.1 in Kansas City, Mo. Read more.