Wazi Maret

Wazi Maret (he/him) is an award-winning independent creative and inclusion strategist currently based in Brooklyn, NY. With a background in community organizing and social justice movements, Wazi has more than 8 years of training experience and has played a number of roles to help advance the rights and opportunities for transgender, non-binary, and intersex people of color. As a trainer, Wazi provides many levels of education to businesses that wish to grow in the areas of racial, gender equity, and/or diversity and inclusion. He has advised groups including Race Forward, the Center for Social Inclusion, Planet, San Francisco LGBT Center, Levis, and more. In 2018 he co-founded his small business, Tender Bois Club: music and creative production house, where he continues his work in multi-media storytelling and social impact. As a Black trans creative from Hyattsville, MD—also from a mixed race family with Southern and working class roots—Wazi comes to the work with many unique perspectives and utilizes divergent thinking to process and build ideas into meaningful projects. To learn more about Wazi’s work, visit www.wazimaret.com.