Angelle Maua
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Angelle (she/they/ella) is a very proud parent of a transgender teen, and it was through her child's transition she noticed the need for BIPOC safe, confidential brave spaces for support in LGBTQIA+ communities of color, especially the African American communities in North and Southeast San Diego Counties. It was because of this void in the BIPOC LGBTQIA+
communities that the GPC support groups and other services have formed. Her work mainly focuses on transgender, nonbinary and gender nonconforming communities to help ensure they have spaces to be 100% authentic and affirmed.
She has been an HIV/AIDS advocate/activist in the LGBTQIA+ community since 2006 as a certified S.I.S.T.A./T-S.I.S.T.A HIV Project trainer. She works closely with several transcompetent agencies, medical facilities and school districts advocating for transgender, nonbinary, gender nonconforming youth rights to have safe spaces in their communities and schools. As a single, African American, queer femme parent, she understands the need for support from her community (it does take a village) to help uplift, affirm, love, educate and change the narratives around what safe affirming and brave spaces look like for our youth, their families, significant others and caregivers.
communities that the GPC support groups and other services have formed. Her work mainly focuses on transgender, nonbinary and gender nonconforming communities to help ensure they have spaces to be 100% authentic and affirmed.
She has been an HIV/AIDS advocate/activist in the LGBTQIA+ community since 2006 as a certified S.I.S.T.A./T-S.I.S.T.A HIV Project trainer. She works closely with several transcompetent agencies, medical facilities and school districts advocating for transgender, nonbinary, gender nonconforming youth rights to have safe spaces in their communities and schools. As a single, African American, queer femme parent, she understands the need for support from her community (it does take a village) to help uplift, affirm, love, educate and change the narratives around what safe affirming and brave spaces look like for our youth, their families, significant others and caregivers.
Dr. Tolúwalàṣé (Laṣé) Ajayi, MD FAAP
Dr. Tolúwalàṣé (Laṣé) Ajayi, MD FAAP, is a fellowship-trained palliative care physician and pediatrician. She currently the Director of Clinical Research and Diversity Initiatives at Scripps Research Translational Institute as well as an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at UC San Diego and Rady Children’s Hospital San Diego where she works as a community hospitalist and pediatric palliative medicine physician; she also serves the medical director of adult palliative medicine at Scripps Mercy Hospital San Diego.
Dr. Ajayi is a member of the Pediatric Operations Task Force and on the Digital Health Technologies committee of the All of Us Research Program with the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Ajayi’s research focuses on opportunities at the intersection of novel digital medicine technologies and unmet needs in maternal fetal health as well as pain and palliative medicine. She hopes to increase participation of pregnant women and their newborn in clinical research and further investigate how mobile health can provide real time, patient reported outcomes that can be rapidly integrated into individualized clinical plans to improve health related quality of life. With these efforts, she hopes to diversify the standard of care provided to pregnant women and augment how we manage the symptoms prevalent in serious illness, with the goal of decreasing distress and associated hospital and emergency room utilization.
Dr. Ajayi is a member of the Pediatric Operations Task Force and on the Digital Health Technologies committee of the All of Us Research Program with the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Ajayi’s research focuses on opportunities at the intersection of novel digital medicine technologies and unmet needs in maternal fetal health as well as pain and palliative medicine. She hopes to increase participation of pregnant women and their newborn in clinical research and further investigate how mobile health can provide real time, patient reported outcomes that can be rapidly integrated into individualized clinical plans to improve health related quality of life. With these efforts, she hopes to diversify the standard of care provided to pregnant women and augment how we manage the symptoms prevalent in serious illness, with the goal of decreasing distress and associated hospital and emergency room utilization.
