Jamie has been active in the transgender community since the mid-1990s. For six years, she served on the board of directors for -
Connecticut Outreach Society a Hartford-based support group for transgendered individuals and their significant others. She also serves as one of the organizers of the annual Fantasia Fair conference and sits on the board of directors of Fantasia Fair's parent organization, Real Life Experiences, Inc.

Jamie has been a presenter at several GLBT conferences, including IFGE, Fantasia Fair, and First Event. She is a published author and her writings including numerous articles related to the transgender community. You can read some of her work on her website, http://www.IAmTransgendered.com.

Jamie is also a self-described computer geek and an Associate Professor at a university in her home state of Connecticut. Due to the lack of much-needed legal protection for transgendered individuals in the workplace, she must sadly decline mentioning which university.