Meet the Team
Manager
Victoria Von Blaque has gone by many names as she has navigated life as a trans woman, a college graduate, a sex worker, a case manager, and now, an educator and consultant.
She is a small business owner, running Femme Fatale LLC - a person branding consultancy organization that promotes body positivity, and the project manager for A Beautiful Transition - a site documenting the lives of trans activists. She has spoken on LGBTQ competency to audiences across New York, including at Columbia University and Manhattanville College, and provided training to organizations including Callen-Lorde and Howie the Harp. Before focusing full time on consulting, she provided case management and retention specialist for LGBTQ homeless youth at the Ali Forney Center, protecting youth from the harms of leaselessness and empowering them with the tools they need to live independently.
Victoria brings an expertise in working with marginalized communities including transgender and nonbinary, LGBTQ youth, and sex workers. Her approach is engaging and personable, inviting participants into moments of vulnerability and shared understanding.
Victoria is currently finishing up her Life Coaching program and hopes to normalize self-care in the black and brown communities.
Visual Director
Rajah Rah is a Brown Desi queer therapist, visual artist and model who believes in holding a safe, healing space for everyone to become their own masterpiece. He has a particular interest in working with POC/Black transgender and queer folx. As a clinician, he has collaborated with children, adolescents, and adults approaching gender identity, sexuality, trauma, depression, anxiety, caregivers to terminal illness, transitions in school, work, kink/BDSM, sex work, and open/poly relationships. As an artist from Brooklyn, his visual work has been featured in gallery shows from New York to California. He is a well experienced painter and muralist with canvas, wood, concrete, sneakers and apparel. He is also an experienced digital graphic artist and has become popular for creating logos, flyers and designs.
Education, Appointments and Publications:
- Magna Cum Laude, Mental Health Counseling (M.A.) at Brooklyn College
- Rose Goldstein Memorial Psychology Scholarship
- Magna Cum Laude, Psychology (B.A) at Hunter College