Joann Prinzivalli is an activist, lawyer and shrewd lobbyist. As a woman born trans (the language she prefers) who came out in mid-life at the turn of the millennium, she wasted no time using her background as a lawyer to take on the injustice and discrimination towards transgender people that she herself was facing.
In this interview with the Westchester LGBTQ+ History Project, Prinzivalli discusses her early life, decades of trans activism at both the local and state levels, and involvement with various Westchester groups and government officials.
To read the full transcript of this interview, click here.
“Getting recognized isn’t why we do these things. We do these things because these are things that need to be done. The whole idea is borrowing from Unitarian minister, Rev. Parker, from the 1840s, also quoted by Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., is, ‘The moral arc of the universe is long, but it bends towards justice.’ I believe in that, but I added a corollary. It doesn’t bend by itself. It takes people of good will to help shape it towards justice.”
Joann Prinzivalli
(Image courtesy of The LOFT)
The Westchester LGBTQ+ History Project 
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