Past Engagements with Photos

Here are the Testimonies I have received.

Speaking & Educational Services


Most Recent Engagements First:

March 15th, 2023 Whitworth University (7pm PST) | Documentary Stories of Intersex and Faith | Q and A afterward with Megan DeFranza, Ph.D., and Anunnaki Marquez.

November 6th, 2022, at 4 pm EST. Megan DeFranza, Ph.D. & Mx. Anunnaki Ray Marquez | Northwest Institute on Intimacy | Advanced Clinical Sexology with Dr. Tina Schermer Sellers

June 16th, 2022, at 5pm PST (8 pm EST) |  Virtual Trans Pride Los Angelos  

June 1st, 2022: Pride Virtual Open Mic: Host Cynthia Winfield from The Forever S7seven | Anunnaki Ray Marquez reads two of his poems & educates about intersex.

April 24th, 2022: blue ocean church | Beyond the Gender Binary: Scripture, Science, and Intersex Experiences | Megan DeFranza Ph.D. and Mx. Anunnaki Ray Marquez

April 20th, 2020 – New Haven Pride Center and Albertus Magnus College | Documentary Screening: Stories of Intersex and Faith and then a panel discussion with Megan DeFranza Ph.D., Mx. Anunnaki Ray Marquez, Marrissa Adams, and Arlene Baratz, M.D.

March 30th, 2022The Elephant Circle: Traning on Sex, Gender, and Midwifery. Conversations with Indra Lucero and Mx. Anunnaki Ray Marquez

February 27th, 2022 – Seatle PFLAG with our Documentary:  Stories of Intersex and Faith, with Panel Questions Afterwards.

December 20th, 2021 – USA Today Interview with David Oliver: What the intersex community wishes you knew: “We are okay the way we are.”

 

October 26th, 2021 – Intersex Awareness Day with My New Haven Pride Center Discussion: A Coversation with Mx. Anunnaki Ray Marquez on IAD 2021. Interview was with Eliot Olson Program Officer

September 19th, 2021 – Including the “I” in LGBTQIA+ Responsibly | Interview with Nicki Pappas Podcast Host and Writer of Broadening the Narrative.

August 23rd, 2021 –  Presented by Transmission Ministry Collective | With Intersex and Faith’s Megan K DeFranza Ph.D. and Mx. Anunnaki Ray Marquez.

April 16th, 2021 – Stories of Intersex and Faith Documentary and Panel Discussion with Megan DeFranza Ph.D., Arlene Baratz M.D., Mx. Anunnaki Ray Marquez and Marrisa Adams (intersex person) | Sponsored by the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Durango, “The G”: Fort Lewis College’s Gender and Sexuality Resource Center, and Fort Lewis College.

January 17th, 2021 – PFLAG DuPage Private Zoom Meeting | How to add the “I” Responsibly to LGBTQIA+ with James Bunce and Anunnaki Marquez 

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December 15th, 2020 – Equality Florida | TransAction Florida  

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February 1st, 2020 – Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Athens | Our Whole Lives (OWL Sex Education) Grades 7 to 9 | Intersex Education & Panel Discussion with James Bunce. 

November 17th, 2019 – Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Athens| Sunday Forum with TEDXlive: Born Intersex: we are human!  With questions and answers.  


October 27th, 2019: We Are the Change: The 2019 PFLAG National Convention.  Educational Talk with Mx. Anunnaki Ray Marquez and James Bunce |Born Intersex: we are human!  The Importance of Inclusion | 8 am to 9:30 am.

September 30th, 2019 – Jacksonville University with TEDx Jacksonville | Location: Terry Concert Hall | Born Intersex: we are human!  Lecture: 4 to 5pm. 

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September 14th – Stories of Intersex and Faith; Film Festival with Cinema Selem: 82 State St. Newburyport, MA, USA.  Movie with Q and A afterward: 12 pm to 2pm. 

Documentary: Stories of Intersex and Faith with the Marquez-Bunce Family, 2017


September 13th, 2019 – Harvard Screening of Stories of Intersex and Faith, and Panel: Harvard Medical School, Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA, USA | 5pm to 7:30pm.

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May 1st, 2019 – International Christian Film And Music Festival | Wyndham Resort International Drive, Orlando, Florida; With Intersex and Faith.


March 31st, 2019 – Buckman Bridge Unitarian Universalist Church with my husband James. 

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January 13th, 2019 – Houston PFLAG with my husband James.

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Houston PFLAG, in Texas.

January 13th, 2019 – Houston Oasis with my husband James.


January 11, 2019 – Q Christian Fellowship Conference in Chicago 2019; “Stories of Intersex and Faith” Sneak Preview of Documentary, with Panel Questions after viewing. 

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With Megan K. De Franza, Lianne Simon, Christian Lankus, David Brukiewa, Jennifer Brukiewa, and Magan, Brukiewa.

December 27th, 2018 -WJCT PodCast Interview with my husband James.


December 9th, 2018 – Story Corps comes to Jacksonville, Florida; with my husband James. 


November 18th, 2018 – Tarpon Springs, Florida with the Stephani Lohman’s Family. Me as Space Pirate Antonio Phoenix meeting and gifting Rosie. I gave her one of the two original intersex flags I had custom made before you could get them anywhere.


November 8th, 2018 – LGBT Resource Center of UNF for Intersex Day of Solidarity and Remembrance. 

October 25th, 2018 – The Gaurdian with Sam Levin: ‘Erasure of an entire group’: Intersex people fear Trump’s anti-trans memo.  


October 20th, 2018 – My TEDx Talk: Born Intersex: we are human!   Annual TEDx Jacksonville Conference in Jacksonville, Florida.

September 17th, 2018 – A link to all 12 News Reporters that covered my getting the First Colorado Intersex Birth Certificate

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May 8th, 2018 – I educated with Jeffrey Goldhagen, M.D., to Smith Hulsey and Busey Florida’s Healthcare Law Firm at their 2018 Healthcare Law and Management Symposium. 


March 7, 2018 –  Born Intersex in the USA Webinar and Discussion with Rockford, Illinois PFLAG Chapter.

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Founder & President of Rockford PFLAG Chapter: Phyllis Gallisath with me for National PFLAG Conference in Oregon, 2017.a

October 27, 2017 – Private Conference for UF College of Medicine for Pediatric Urologist.  Supported by Jeffrey Goldhagen, M.D and RayKay Santa:  Born Intersex in the USA.  After this presentation Dr. Goldhagen and I would also educate lawyers together at a private gathering.

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October 26th, 2017 – Lunch Engagement for Intersex Awareness Day, with UNF LGBT Resource Center.

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Intersex Awareness Day October, 26th 2017 – Gender Space Pirate Antonio Phoenix meets Joey for Intersex Awareness Day.  The gift if Self-determination. 


October 22, 2017, 8:00 am to 9:30 am – PFLAG National Conference in Portland, Oregon.:  Understanding Intersex and the Moral Imperative of Self-Determination:  Judi Herring, MD, and Anunnaki Ray, Gender/Intersex Activist: Educator, Writer, & Speaker.

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PFLAG National Conference 2017 with my Jacksonville Chapter and Judi Herring, M.D.

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MOSH Pride Celebration Day June 24, 2017, BORN INTERSEX: My Story and the Value of Inclusion, Mx. Anunnaki Ray, Director of Intersex and Gender Education, PFLAG of Jacksonville.


MOSH, April 16,  2017;  Private Presentation to the Executive Director and administration.


MOSH (Museum of Science and History in Jacksonville), March 6, 2017;  Private Presentation regarding  MOSH Intersex Education and the problems with Bathrooms.


All World Acres,  April 23 and 24, 2017:  All World Acres, Plant City, Florida, 2 Day Workshop:  Day 1:  My Intersex Story & the Value of Inclusion.   Day 2:  Presented with my husband James Bunce and shared our love story with questions and answers.

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All World Acres
Thank you, Sarah Palm, for opening the door to All World Acres.

All World Acres,  April 23 and 24, 2017:  All World Acres, Plant City, Florida, 2 Day Workshop:  Day 1:  My Intersex Story & the Value of Inclusion.   Day 2:  Presented with my husband James Bunce and shared our love story with questions and answers.


All World Acres,  March 11, 2017:  Rainbow Festival at All World Acres, in Plant City, Florida:  My Intersex Story & the Value of Inclusion.   


PFLAG Jacksonville, Jan. 19th, 2017: Public Presentation: My Story & the Value of Inclusion.    

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JASMYN, May 24, 2016:  Private Presentation: Educating the Director for possible future presentations.


Florida State College at Jacksonville, Dec. 1, 2016:   Presented solo, to the Student Psychological Society, and Erin Vest Roger’s Class.

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Florida State College at Jacksonville, March 16, 2016: Presented with Judi Herring, M.D.,  to the Student Psychological Society and  Erin Vest Roger’s Class.


University of Northern Florida, Feb, 25th, 2016:  Presented with Judi Herring, M.D.,  on leading and listening with care as part of the Taylor Leadership Institute Speakers Bureau, in collaboration with UNF LGBT Resource Center.  

Anunnaki with Judi Herring, M.D. at UNF.
Anunnaki with Judi Herring, M.D. at UNF, 2016


Pensacola Law School in Jacksonville Florida, with Judi Herring M.D., End of 2015: We were a part of a panel talking about bathroom laws and educating about intersex.


Buckman Bridge Unitarian Universalist Church, Sept. 6, 2015:  Listen with care Build Bridges of Understanding:  Presented with Judi Herring, M.D., on listening with care, and sharing my intersex story for the first time.  I have also helped educate BBUUC’s OWL Class on Intersex in 2016.  Here is the link to my first talk on Youtube: My First Talk

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