Hi I’m DeShanna Neal, BS, MS, CFLE (she/they)! I’m a mother of four, a lifelong Delawarean, a
longtime advocate for the LGBTQIA+ community, and an author. I’ve been involved in the
LGBTQIA+ community for almost two decades and have worked with many mental and medical
health providers in creating solid standards of care for individuals and their families within the
community. I was a co-founding member for Parents of Trans Kids (PTK) Delaware, co-founder
of Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Families of Trans Equality, and a Family Organizer for
National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE). I do this work because I believe that family
should be more than a unit; it can be a community from within and that community is everything!
I have my Bachelors in Psychology, my Masters in Applied Family Science, and I’m a Certified
Family Life Educator. I previously worked as a mobile outpatient therapist for youth in New
Castle County for almost two years, provided professional development for Red Clay
Consolidated School district, and sat on the Family Advisory Council through Nemours for two
years.