Myer (they/them) is a Brooklyn-based memory worker, facilitator, crisis counselor, and community gardener.

With over 9+ years of experience in organizing, facilitation, and nonprofit management, Myer’s work is primarily rooted in direct, hands-on community care—including LGBTQ+ suicide de-escalation and crisis counseling, abortion access case management, abolitionist arts education, and neighborhood-based food sovereignty.

Myer began collecting oral histories as a senior in high school, interviewing elders at their hometown community center. In the intervening years, Myer has woven together narratives across a wide range of lived histories, documenting stories and leading collaborative workshops with residents of gentrifying neighborhoods in Richmond, VA, teens in juvenile detention, and trans millennials coming of age on the internet (among others).

In pursuit of libratory ways to repurpose the archive as a community resource, Myer has returned to memory work over the last year and a half. Their current projects include a collection of pre-2000 images of top surgery scars, an investigation of the trans nude across art history, and a digital archive of 1990s–2000s transgender/transsexual personal webpages.

While at OHMA, Myer plans to continue their practice of memory as a tool for social change, uplifting themes of trans identity, bodily autonomy, and speculative archives.

Myer holds a B.A. in American Studies and Gender & Sexuality Studies from the University of Richmond, where they were awarded the prestigious Oldham Scholarship and graduated Summa Cum Laude. They currently live in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, which sits on the unceded ancestral homelands of the Lenape people.