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Meet the Panelists:

Alejandra Caraballo is a civil rights attorney and Clinical Instructor at Harvard Law School's Cyberlaw Clinic. Her scholarship and practice address the intersection of civil rights law, technology policy, and institutional accountability, with particular focus on the areas of digital privacy in areas of stigmatized healthcare around reproductive care and gender affirming care. She is admitted to practice in New York and Massachusetts, and is admitted to the Southern District of New York and the Eleventh, Ninth, and Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. Her litigation practice has included impact cases on healthcare discrimination, employment discrimination, and LGBTQ civil rights, including work on Kadel v. Folwell, Lange v. Houston County, and Boston Alliance v. HHS. Alejandra’s published legal scholarship includes The Anti-Transgender Medical Expert Industry (Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, 2022), Extradition in Post-Roe America (CUNY Law Review, 2023), and The Death of Medical Privacy for Trans Patients (forthcoming, Saint Louis University Journal of Health Law & Policy, 2026). Her scholarship has been cited in law reviews, amicus briefs, and media coverage of LGBTQ civil rights litigation.

Celeste Trianon is a transfeminine jurist and activist, based out of Montréal (in the traditional lands of the Kanien'keháka) and active all across Canada. Celeste holds a Bachelor of Laws from the Université de Montréal and a Juris Doctor from Osgoode Hall Law School (Toronto). She is currently working with the Women’s Legal Education and Action Fund in Toronto, while completing her lawyer licensure process with the Law Society of Ontario. Through Juritrans, the legal clinic she founded prior to starting her first law degree, over a thousand trans people in Québec, Nova Scotia and other provinces have been able to get information and accompaniment in applying for legal name changes. Celeste has created opportunities for 2SLGBTQ•  law students to be involved with their own community through partnerships with various Canadian law schools. She has equally coordinated several judicial interventions defending the rights of trans people, both at trial (notably in A.B. v. Québec Minister of Education) and at the Supreme Court of Canada (namely Hak/EMSB and UR Pride). In her capacity as a content creator, she has built a following of 22,000 on Instagram, primarily through breaking the news on developments in transgender issues in Canada. Celeste maintains Canada's Anti-Trans Risk Map, a resource extensively used in academia, conferences, and even by trans U.S. citizens seeking to flee their country.

Meet the Moderator:

M. Remi Yergeau is a Canada Research Chair in Critical Disability Studies and Communication and an associate professor of Communication and Media Studies at Carleton University. They also direct the Digital Accessible Futures Lab as a part of the DISCO Network. Remi is an autistic academic, and their scholarly interests include rhetoric & writing studies, digital studies, trans and queer rhetorics, disability studies, and theories of mind. Their book, Authoring Autism: On Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness (Duke UP, 2017), is a winner of the 2017 Modern Language Association First Book Prize, the 2019 CCCC Lavender Rhetorics Book Award for Excellence in Queer Scholarship, and the 2019 Rhetoric Society of America Book Award. Along with 13 colleagues from DISCO, Remi is a co-author of Technoskepticism (Stanford UP, 2025).

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