Photo credit: Maia Kobabe

Sarah Peitzmeier

Sarah Peitzmeier, PhD is an Assistant Professor of Behavioral and Community Health at the University of Maryland School of Public Health. Her mixed-methods research focuses on the epidemiology and prevention of gender-based violence, as well as LGBTQ+ health promotion. She is co-author (with Maia Kobabe) of the graphic novel Breathe, which is based on her research on chest binding in transmasculine individuals. Sarah received her PhD from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in 2017.

2025 Family Day 

Speaker  – All Bodies All Selves

Dan Alter

Dan Alter’s poems, reviews and translations have been published in journals including Field, Fourteen Hills, and Zyzzyva; his first collection My Little Book of Exiles won the 2022 Cowan Poetry Prize. A volume of translations Take a Breath, You’re Getting Excited, from the Hebrew of Yakir Ben-Moshe, was published by Ben Yehuda Press in September 2024, and Hills Full of Holes, a second collection of poems, by Fernwood Press in March 2025. He lives with his wife and daughter in Berkeley. He works at the Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life at UC Berkeley.

2025 Writers’ Workshops

Speaker A Compass in the Wilderness: Poetry in the Age of Environmental Crisis