Transgender Career Expo @ SCC 2007

August 13, 2007 in Workin' Girl by Rebecca | No comments

Southern Comfort Conference (SCC) is one of the most important Transgender Conferences in the United States. This year they hope to top 1000 attendees. I’ve had the immense pleasure of meeting some of their organizers such Lola Cola (in person, what a treat!) and CAT (only on the phone, but a delight none-the-less). They are so helpful in fact that both of them were important consultants to First Event 2007. How’s that for being a friend!

Both Lola and CAT are dedicated to making SCC fun, friendly and helpful. And the helpful part is something you don’t hear to much about but they blaze a trail of social justice that every trans-person should take note of and emulate even in some small way.

This year SCC’s innovative approach to helping the transgender community extends to finding a job! The Transgender Career Expo at Southern Comfort Conference. The Career Expo will run from 9:00AM until 4:00PM on Friday, September 14th (closed during lunch). It is an open event sponsored by SCC and The Human Rights Campaign and one need not be registered for the conference to gain value from this function.

The Transgender Career Expo is exemplary on a number of levels, from it being the first of its kind to the type of companies that are exhibiting. Here’s a partial list. Some will have actual HR Recruiting Managers present while others will simply be sending representatives as a show of support and to supply information Its a who’s who of corporate America:

  • Alston & Bird LLC
  • American Airlines
  • Deloitte Ernst & Young
  • GLAAD
  • Hewlett Packard
  • Human Rights Campaign
  • Intercontinental Hotel Group
  • JPMorganChase
  • Lambda Legal
  • Microsoft
  • NCTE
  • New York Life
  • NGLCC
  • Powell Goldstein LLP
  • PriceWaterhouseCoopers
  • Sprint / NEXTEL
  • The Point Foundation
  • The Mosaic Identity
  • Turner Broadcasting

How important is the Transgender Career Expo? Let me quote Lola Cola and Kristin Reichman both of SCC:

Please be sure to spread the word to promote and support this extraordinary event. It is critical that we, as a community, step up and create our own place in the world just as these companies have stepped up to the realization that hiring and retaining quality employees is based upon talent and abilities and that being Transgender is irrelevant.

[information courtesy of Lola Cola, Kristin Reichman; Southern Comfort Conference]