Following graduation from the University of Colorado in 1992, Bethany pursued a variety of interests: High school teacher, hotel manager, performer & media manager for Disney on Ice, and Major League Baseball mascot. In 2002, Bethany returned to school at the University of Missouri. There she also served as an adjunct professor as well as a newspaper editor, as well as winning several awards for narrative and feature writing.
After Missouri, Bethany went into small-town journalism where she worked as a reporter and then humor columnist in Lincoln County, Oregon. She later switched her journalism pursuits from writing to teaching, when she became a middle and high school journalism, English, and social studies teacher. In 2010 she became the daddy to a daughter he continues to find just this side of perfect. She maintained these roles until enrolling in the University of Oregon in 2015 – though she stayed her daughter's daddy.
In 2019, Bethany graduated with her Ph.D. from School of Journalism and Communication with a dissertation that conducted pioneering research into the effects of media on transgender identity, one that has made a contribution to theory. Since that time, she has been working to build the TransHealth Data Collective as well as TranswersLLC into national forces for assisting transgender people in the healthcare space.
On the side, she hosts and presents at conferences, and even works as a stand-up comedienne from time-to-time, all of it to help people understand a very misunderstood part of the population.
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