Our team.
Samy Nemir Olivares [they/them], Founder and Director
Samy Nemir is a queer Latinx writer, speaker, communications strategist, translator, and social justice advocate fighting for equality and social justice, particularly for marginalized communities including LGBTQ and Latinx. Samy started his career as a journalist and photojournalist for almost a decade before moving to politics when he joined the Clinton 2016 presidential election as the nationwide Spanish translator and Latinx strategist.
There, Samy spearheaded the translation of the first presidential campaign website into Spanish, created the first Twitter in Spanish from a presidential candidate as well as the first speech delivered in Spanish by a candidate from the presidential ticket. Samy later worked in public relations for various nonprofits, and organizations including the Center for Popular Democracy, a national federation of community organizing groups. Samy has extensive experience translating from English to Spanish from political campaigns, policy, medical and legal documents, as well as journalistic and media texts. This includes having translated the first ever Vogue magazine article published in Spanish.
Today, Samy works as an advocate in a civil rights nonprofit for LGBTQ+ people and people living with HIV and is an outspoken activist for Latinx, LGBTQ, immigrant, and women's rights, as well as education.
Samy has been named one of the Power Latino 100 honorees in New York State in 2021, as well as among the Brooklyn Power 100 and Pride 100 in 2022 by City and State.
Myr Olivares [she/they], Consultant on Gender, Sexuality, and Latine community
Myr is a nonbinary writer, artist, and Inclusive Sexual Health Educator of Puerto Rican and Dominican heritage. They graduated with Bachelor’s degrees in Journalism, Italian, and French, as well as a minor in Women and Gender Studies from the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus. Myr has been involved in the global and national advocacy for sexual and reproductive rights for over a decade since their teenage years when they became a peer-to-peer sexuality educator in schools and board member of ProFamilias (Puerto Rico’s largest sexual health clinics).
Myr currently works at Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast, where they lead the Queering Sex Ed initiative, an online platform that promotes sexual health information access and facilitates conversations with LGBTQIA+ folks, particularly youth, in bias-free and equitable brave spaces about sexuality and gender. Myr also facilitates training, workshops, and educational meetings to educate about inclusive sexuality, gender, and LGBTQ issues.
Their work focuses on educating Latinx, youth, LGBTQIA+, trans, non-binary, and gender non-conforming communities on their sexual and reproductive rights and promoting justice, equity, and inclusion in diverse spaces.
Myr is a published poet whose poems have been published in various anthologies, including La Piel del Arrecife, the first anthology of Puerto Rican poetry by trans writers, and have been translated into English, Italian, and Portuguese.
You can find Myr learning languages, playing logic games, discovering new music, or spending time with their partner and Kodak, their long-lashed canine. Myr is based in Houston, Texas.