Ola Osifo Osaze is a trans masculine queer of Edo and Yoruba descent, who was born in Port Harcourt, Rivers State and now based in NYC. Ola is the Co-founder and former Director for the Black LGBTQ+ Migrant Project, the 1st organization of its kind to exist nationally. Ola has decades of movement-building experience working with organizations such as Transgender Law Center, the Audre Lorde Project, Uhuru Wazobia (one of the first LGBT groups for African immigrants in the US), Queers for Economic Justice and Sylvia Rivera Law Project.53