Masters to Host Alex Myers for Talk on Gender Identity

11/16/2018

The Office of Equity and Inclusion and Parent Association invite all parents and guardians to attend a talk on gender identity with writer, teacher and speaker Alex Myers on Tuesday, November 27 at 6:00 PM in the Sharon Room.

Alex Myers is a writer, teacher and speaker. Born and raised in Paris, Maine, Alex was raised as a girl (Alice) and left Maine to attend boarding school at Phillips Exeter Academy. As a student at Exeter, Myers came out as transgender, returning his senior year as a man after attending for three years as a woman, and was the first transgender student in that Academy’s history. After Exeter, Myers earned his bachelor’s at Harvard University, studying Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. He was also the first openly transgender student at Harvard and worked to change the University’s nondiscrimination clause to include gender identity. Subsequent to earning a master’s degree in religion at Brown, Myers has pursued a career in teaching English at secondary schools. He completed his Master’s of Fine Arts in fiction writing at Vermont College of Fine Arts, where he began his work on Revolutionary.

The Masters School welcomed Myers to the School earlier this year to discuss gender identity and inclusion at the School.