MEET ALLYN
Photo by @allisonshelley for @mesa7media
Allyn is a transgender activist living in Hampton, VA. Allyn balances his Army career with the raising of six-year-old C.J., the son of a cousin, running a non-profit he founded to support trans-masculine people of color, My Brother Too, and classes at Southern New Hampshire University, where he studies psychology. He has regular strategy sessions with other transgender community leaders, like Nyonna L. Byers, founder of Empowering Transgender Services, Inc., and London Bella, founder of The House of Bella, pictured.