Samuel Schmitt

Sam Schmitt (they/he), visiting faculty teaching in the departments of public health and social justice and social change, is a queer, trans, and disabled community activist and scholar, as well as a doctoral candidate in Multicultural Women and Gender Studies at Texas Woman's University. They have expertise in transgender studies, disability justice, sexual violence advocacy, and cross-coalitional social movements.

Schmitt studies grassroots care-based organizing that uses mutually-beneficial, interdependent, and socially just methods for responding to the human need for care, divesting from institutionalized and carceral responses to care provision for marginalized people.