Collections by Michelle Brown WSG Hannah Hartley & Diane Schultz

We continue the celebration of LGBTQ Pride with an introduction of an amazing activist couple. Hannah Hartley and Diane Schulz are planning their June wedding. Both also serve on the board of the Gender-Identity Network Alliance (GNA). The purpose GNA is to create positive social change supporting all forms of gender identity and expression through charitable, educational, and service works. who identify as trans, transgender, gender non-conforming, gender-variant, or those in the process of reassigning their gender. GNA hosts, Annual Spring and Winter Potlucks , a weekly support group, the annual Transgender Day of Remembrance each November, and on June 24, 2017 the Transgender Day Of Empowerment   at Affirmations Center in Ferndale, MI.

Hannah is an accomplished musician and composer. Before moving to Michigan, she lived in Cleveland, OH and Los Angeles, CA where she owned a creative agency and recording studio. Upon moving to Michigan, she continued her marketing wizardry by joining Green Path Financial Wellness as Digital Marketing Manager and webmaster. Her fiance Diane Schulz serves on the board of GNA as Secretary. She studied criminal justice at Michigan State University which led to a 30-year career in law enforcement. During her career, she was a police officer, a sergeant, a lieutenant and participated in union leadership for her fellow officers. Since her retirement she has been in private practice as an investigator.

Hannah and Diane join Collections by Michelle Brown to share their individual stories, their journey as a couple and how in the midst of all of this they remain committed to the vision and mission of GNA and its work for Michigan’s transgender, gender non-conforming, and gender-variant community