Bianca Palmisano, Lead Consultant
Bianca Palmisano (they/them) is a registered nurse, sex educator, and the owner of Intimate Health Consulting. They specialize in training healthcare providers around issues of sexual health, as well as LGBT, sex worker, and sexual assault survivor competency. They are a graduate of the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing and work in the Washington, DC area as community health nurse and sexual assault nurse examiner. They also serve as a Genito-Urinary Teaching Associate (GUTA), teaching medical, physician assistant, and nurse practitioner students how to perform competent and trauma-informed breast and pelvic exams.
Bianca's career began as a case manager working with the homeless population of DC at Friendship Place, where they chaired the LGBT advocacy working group from 2013-2015. They also served as a facilitator for the classroom education program The Rainbow Speakers Bureau, and as chair of the Transgender Advocacy Project for American University. Mx. Palmisano is a Planned Parenthood certified sex educator, two-time presenter for the Philadelphia Transgender Health Conference and the Woodhull Sexual Freedom Summit, and previous planning committee member for DC's Transgender Day of Remembrance.
Bianca is the primary author of "Safer Sex for Trans Bodies," an outreach and education guide for the trans community sponsored by Whitman Walker Health and the Human Rights Campaign. They have been a guest lecturer for multiple medical education programs, including George Washington University, Johns Hopkins, and University of Chicago.
In addition to sexual health work, Palmisano is a volunteer with Jews United for Justice, and regularly provides testimony to the DC City Council on issues around budget allocations, affordable housing, LGBT cultural competency, and sex work decriminalization.
