Rae Garringer (they/them) is a writer, oral historian, and audio producer who grew up on a sheep farm in southeastern West Virginia, and now lives a few counties away on traditional S’atsoyaha and Šaawanwaki lands.
Rae is the founder of Country Queers – a multimedia, community-based oral history project and podcast documenting rural and small town LGBTQIA2S+ experiences since 2013. They are a Senior Civic Media Fellow at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg Innovation Lab, a member of the Mapping Trans Joy team, and producer of The NERVE! Conversations with Movement Elders, a podcast from the National Council of Elders.
When not working with stories Rae spends a lot of time failing at keeping goats in fences, two-stepping around their trailer, and swimming in the river. They are a hermit introvert who is resolutely committed to rural people and places, most especially the central Appalachian region.
