Taking Action Speaker Series

“Welcoming Transgender/Nonbinary Children and Youth in Our Schools and Our Lives.”

Join national speaker and author, Ellen (Ellie) Krug as she shares about what it means to be transgender and offers ideas and strategies on how to be welcoming and supportive of transgender and nonbinary children and youth, both in our schools and in our families/society, particularly at this very difficult time in America.”

In 2009, Ellie Krug was a civil trial attorney in Cedar Rapids with 100+ trials when she started her transition from male to female. She later became one of the few attorneys nationally to try jury cases in separate genders. The author of Getting to Ellen: A Memoir about Love, Honesty and Gender Change (2013) and Being Ellen: A Second Chance at Life (2025), Ellie has trained on diversity and inclusion to court systems, law firms, Fortune 100 corporations, and colleges/universities on more than 1000 occasions.