The Team
Power Beyond Pride host team
7 co-hosts, each bringing their own community to the table.
Shawn Aaron
he/him
Founder + ED, Dem Bois Inc.
Shawn Aaron is a Black queer trans man, nonprofit leader, and host of Dem Bois Podcast. He is the Founder and Executive Director of Dem Bois Inc., dedicated to affirming and supporting trans men of color through access to gender-affirming care, health equity, and visibility. Drawing from his lived experience with homelessness, Shawn's mission is rooted in community care and systemic change. His signature belief: Visibility = Possibility™
Mattie Bynum
she/her
Comedian · Community advocate
Growing up in a small southern town and knowing she was different, Mattie Bynum has never shied away from using her voice — from arguing for equal benefits for all Duke University employees as a teenager to organizing so that no one goes without food. She has used every stage available to her: her one-woman show “Mattie Larger Than Life,” her radio show “Salon After Dark,” and the reality series “My Big Fat Fabulous Life.” Mattie is always making room, or simply inventing space, for everyone to feel welcome.
Kenyon Farrow
he/him
Writer · Editor · Strategist
Kenyon Farrow is a writer, editor, and strategist whose work has long focused on public health and infectious disease with a focus on racial, gender and economic justice. Outside of social justice work, Kenyon is a big music nerd, a theatre and dance enthusiast, and a househead.
Hunter
they/them
Photographer · Health equity
Hunter is a queer, Black, disabled femme with many passions — urban foraging and local sourcing, education, consent and kink, health equity, Appalachian roots, and the intersectionalities of identity and community. When they're not out trying to save the world, Hunter is a photographer, crafter, baker, gardener, and an avid lover of the dark and mysterious. Their family has always said they've “never known a stranger,” which makes podcasts and portrait photography a natural pursuit.
Melodie KG
she/they
Co-Director, New Moon Network
Melodie is a published author, speaker, and activist with over 12 years of experience leading social justice projects ranging from direct services to advocacy to philanthropy. She is Co-Director for New Moon Network, an intermediary funder and capacity builder advancing sex workers' rights in the USA, and founder of Orange Cap Consultation, helping institutions connect with marginalized communities through engagement design, facilitation, and analysis. Her work is shaped by lived experience as a queer woman of color, sex worker, and first-generation college graduate.
Daniel W.K. Lee
he/him
Poet · Author
Daniel W.K. Lee (李華強) is a third-generation refugee, queer, Cantonese American born in Kuching, Malaysia. He earned his MFA in Creative Writing at The New School, and his debut poetry collection, Anatomy of Want, was published by QueerMojo/Rebel Satori Press. His work appears in print and online, including Winter in America (Again), High Rise: Brutalist Poetry, South Dakota Review, Foglifter, and 64 Parishes. He writes from New Orleans, alongside his head-turning whippet Camden.
Shane Lukas
he/him
Founder, A Great Idea
Shane Lukas combines an award-winning design career with a life of grassroots activism fighting for bodily freedoms and queer liberation. For the last 10 years he has led the team at A Great Idea, a branding and design agency serving purpose-driven nonprofit, healthcare, and education partners. By night he advocates for queer rights, reproductive justice, and gender-affirming, universally accessible sexual health care — including in his recent TED Talk. His first business book, “The Advocate Advantage,” arrives in 2026.
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