Vanity Reid Deterville is a Gullah Geechee Black Trans woman from the low country
of Charleston, SC (Now living and working in the Triad and Triangle of North
Carolina) with a Political Science and Public Policy background and is currently in
pursuit of her Master of Public Health with a Concentration of Leadership and
Practice from The Gillings School of Global Public Health at The University of North
Carolina-Chapel Hill. For the past 7 years Deterville has served in a Co-facilitator
and partner member capacity with the Transformative Teaching Collective where
she assists in the development and facilitation of Restorative dialogue, equity-based
workshops, and anti-racist pedagogies.

Vanity pioneers for Queer and Trans People of color through her activism and her connections within the Carolina Kiki and Mainstream Ballroom community with membership in the Carolina Chapter of the Kiki House of Bodega and Iconic House of Balenciaga. Deterville is passionate about advancing health equity through her involvement within community engaged research and patient-centered outcomes as an advisory councilmember of the Duke University CTSI Community Engaged Research Initiative (CERI-CAC).

Five and a half years have passed since she began working on behalf of her NC community with political involvement through the Equality NC Political Action Committee (ENC PAC) and more recently ascending to the role of Co-Executive Director at The LGBTQ Center of Durham in Durham, NC where her fight for the  access, liberation and protection or Queer and Trans people persists.