Jaime M. Grant, PhD, co-founder of the National LGBTQ+ Women’s Community Survey project, is an Irish American sexpert, grassroots researcher, and activist engaged in LGBTQ+, women’s, and racial justice movements since the late 80s. Having survived sexist violence and anti-lesbian disownment as a youth, she became a go-to resource on gender and sex among her peers as a matter of survival.

This led to doctoral studies in gender and sexuality and the creation of the Desire Mapping process, which she has offered for 20 years via individual coaching and workshops at community centers and universities throughout the United States.  Desire Mapping has also been featured at feminist and LGBTQ+ pride and human rights convenings around the globe — including Russia, China, South Korea, Vietnam, the Philippines, Cyprus, Kenya, South Africa, New Zealand, and Mauritius.  Her book, Great Sex: Mapping Your Desire (2015) takes the reader on the workshop journey via an accessible, journaling format.

In the ‘10s, she served as principal investigator for the National LGBTQ Task Force’s ground-breaking reports on aging, Outing Age (2010), and anti-transgender discrimination, Injustice at Every Turn: A Report of the National Transgender Discrimination Survey (2011). In 2017, she co-edited a global anthology on friendship as fuel for movement-building entitled Friendship as Social Justice Activism.  Her latest book, Polyamory For Dummies for the well-known Dummies Series, comes out in December.