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Avery Everhart is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of British Columbia. She is trained in the intersections of social, spatial, and health sciences and integrates humanistic approaches in her applied transgender studies work. Her dissertation produced a public, spatially-enabled database of gender-affirming hormone therapy (GAHT) providers in the US, a measure of spatial mismatch in availability of GAHT versus true access, and a human rights-based spatial model for measuring accessibility of healthcare. She has published on queer and trans survivors of intimate partner violence, and sexual and reproductive rights for trans people globally. Dr Everhart also has forthcoming works on archaeological findings of transgender remains in the ancient past, conflicting attitudes toward informed consent among GAHT providers, and the health and social services priorities of trans women living with and affected by HIV. She received her PhD from the Population, Health and Place program housed in the Spatial Sciences Institute, and jointly administered with the Departments of Sociology and Preventive Medicine, at the University of Southern California. She currently serves as director of finance of the Center.