Greetings. My name is Michael and I live in the UK. I’ve identified as asexual for around 15 years. My main vis related activities have been media work and taking part and organizing UK events, such as campus workshops and pride marches.

My main role on the PT will be the coordination of media events. I wish to find ways of reaching out to more potential participants, both on AVEN and beyond.

I am also interested in organizing and enhancing AVEN’s visibility resources. This will be a major project over the next few months, with which the PT will be needing help and support from the wider community.

Next, I and other PT members wish to make the PT more open and accessible to the AVEN community, both so that everyone much better knows what is going on, and so that we can help others locate suitable resources and put people in touch with others who can help with their projects.

Finally, I am organizing the ace group Worldpride 2012, and doing this will take a good deal of my time over the period from now to next July. See the forum for more details.

My name is Andrew, and I am currently working on a Ph.D. in linguistics. For some time, I have taken considerable interest in the academic study of asexuality. This led to the creation of my site Asexual Explorations, which aims to promote the academic study of asexuality, provides a bibliography of existing material on the subject, and gives some suggestions for future research topics. I am now in the early stages of doing my dissertation on asexuality. I am also AVEN’s first Dedicated Research Contact.

I joined the PT in fall 2010, and my work on the PT has largely been in four areas. First, I’ve been involved in establishing and implementing a set of guidelines for researchers wanting to use AVEN to recruit research participants. Because the PT was put in charge of overseeing this, people were concerned about the possibility that a future PT might not have any members knowledgeable enough about research issues for the PT to be able to do this. To deal with this, a specific PT position—Dedicated Research Contact—and I am currently serving in this position. Second, I’ve been very interested in establishing the PT as an institution on AVEN and having a more clearly defined role in the asexual community. Third, I’ve been involved in updating the wiki and in trying to get more people involved in updating the wiki. Fourth, I’ve been involved in trying to get the PT to create—and to get others to create—static content resources that I think would be helpful for the asexual community.

greetings!

I’m Cleander, and I am a 19 year-old aromantic asexual.

I first found the ace community about 4 years ago, when I began questioning in early high school, and I started becoming actively involved about 2 years ago when I graduated high school and started coming out. I am now a flamingly open ace, and I am heavily involved in promoting asexuality visibility and education on my local campus.

Speaking of visibility, some of my past and ongoing projects include creating stickers for and marching in SF pride 2011, organizing workshops and screenings for asexual awareness week in my area, microblogging via tumblr, and working with local campus lgbtq groups to promote asexual visibility.

My main interests lie in following current academic research on asexuality, creating and making available more visibility materials, and promoting offline asexual visibility.

Outside of AVEN, I am a second-year linguistics student at UC Berkeley, though I originally hail from Southern California. In my free time, I enjoy reading manga, cooking delicious food, exploring urban areas, and costuming.

Here on tumblr, I also run my own personal ace-themed blog at Next Step: Cake, and other random things of interest as littlepaperfrogs.

p.s. - If you ever want help with vis/ed projects, or just want to say hi, feel free to drop me a line!