Jaime Grant

Jaime Grant, Director of the Policy Institute at the Task Force, holds a Ph. D. in Women’s Studies from the Union Institute where she studied with Minnie Bruce Pratt, Barbara Smith and queer historian John D’Emilio. For six years, she directed the Union Institute’s Center for Women, the nation’s only academic women’s center dedicated to collaborations between scholars and activists. Her articles on transformational organizations and coalition work have been published in major academic journals and anthologies.

Grant has offered a course in social movements at Georgetown University and workshops on gender expression and sexuality at Whitman Walker’s Lesbian Services Program and The Task Force's Creating Change Conference. Her piece on butch/femme erotics was developed at Whitman Walker and appeared in Leslea Newman’s anthology The Femme Mystique and in Sojourner: The Women’s Forum. Grant recently served as a program designer and facilitator for the Ford Foundation’s signature leadership program, Leadership for a Changing World, at the Advocacy Institute.

A femme and a feminist, a sex radical and a mom, Grant lives in the Petworth neighborhood of DC with her partner and their two children.