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Publications
4 Ways Funders Can Build Authentic Partnerships With Trans and Nonbinary Communities
Stanford Social Innovation Review
January 2023
What We’re Reading: Funding Trans Liberation
Northern California Grantmakers
August 2022
Trans Communities Are Under Attack. Here’s How Philanthropy Must Respond.
Inside Philanthropy
March 2022
Resourcing Trans-Led Organizations and Building Power for Trans Communities
Nonprofit Quarterly
December 2020
Interviews & Features
Refinery29 Somos: Dear Cuerpo
March 2022
@r29somos: In this first notita de amor from our Dear Cuerpo series, @ladycaucau reads a letter to their fat, hairy, trans body. If fat is stored energy, then may our past painful thoughts be drowned in our awakenings. #cuerpobysomos x @ladycaucau🎥: @itskatlazo
The 41 List
January 2022
Honor41orgTV: Aldita Gallardo works as a Program Associate for the Fund for Trans Generations at Borealis Philanthropy. She has been organizing at the intersections of racial and gender justice, trans/queer liberation, immigrant rights, and youth leadership development for over a decade. Prior to joining the Borealis team, she trained trans/queer youth of color to advocate for racial, gender, and economic justice in their schools and communities with the Genders & Sexualities Alliance (GSA) Network, based in Oakland, California. A Northwestern University graduate, she currently serves on the advisory board for El/La Para TransLatinas. Born in Lima, Peru, she enjoys herbal teas and basking in the sun.
UMedia Interview
January 2020
UMedia: Aldita Gallardo is a Latinx trans woman, community organizer, and former youth worker based in Oakland, California. At the time of this interview, she served as a Senior Program Associate for the Fund for Trans Generations at Borealis Philanthropy, and as a board member at El/La Para Translatinas, a community center, public health, and anti-violence organization serving trans Latinx migrants in the San Francisco Bay Area. Prior to her work at Borealis, she organized alongside queer, trans, and gender-variant youth in the East Bay. In this oral history interview, Gallardo discusses her political development as a high school and college student and first forays into radical queer and trans people of color-led communities in the Bay Area, her work with queer and trans youth and her belief in the urgency and importance of that work, her work with the Fund for Trans Generations, and her thoughts on philanthropy and its relationship to queer and trans people of color-led movements on the ground, violence against Black and Brown trans women, and visions of a better future for trans people of color.
