Camilla Marchena

Co-Secretary

Camilla Marchena (pronouns: she/her) is currently working as a linkage specialist, patient navigator, and community health educator at a non-profit health care facility in the Transgender Women’s Engagement and Entry to Care (TWEET) program helping to remove barriers to healthcare, and other services.  Camilla is a proud, Latinx trans woman who felt a calling to serve her community, so others would feel supported on their journeys. She is also a part of the Trans Advisory Committee which trains personnel on cultural humility and trans competent care, as well as working on different advocacy efforts in the greater New Orleans area. She is fluent in Spanish and works to connect and navigate healthcare for the LGBTQ Latinx community, especially Spanish speaking trans women. She is working towards advancing her career in health care to become a provider that centers gender affirming care.

The work she does is to dismantle the systems that discriminate against a person’s trans identity impacting their housing, health care, and employment and ultimately the love and respect they deserve. Equity and liberation for her community is her main drive in life.