Shane Hill was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He has worked most of his life as a clinical psychologist, mindfulness teacher, community facilitator and artist. He moved to Santa Cruz in the 1990s. Shane has been involved in a variety of activities across Santa Cruz County including organizing therapists and counselors to better serve LGBTQ+ youth, supporting the Queer Youth Leadership Awards, founding and facilitating the Santa Cruz queer camp for queer youth, has taught at the Rainbow Sangha sits at Insight Santa Cruz in the Buddhist tradition. He co-founded most of the transgender mental health resources in Santa Cruz over 25 years ago including the Trans Families support group, trans support groups at the Diversity Center, facilitated Trans trainings for mental health therapists through the state, and co-founded and supervised the Gender Specialists Consult Group in Santa Cruz for 10 years. He has been part of the Radical Faeries in Santa Cruz since 1992 and continues to be involved today. He published the book, “Faerie Magick” which is about the Santa Cruz Radical Faeries and their creative performances for Pride and other events often organized to make money to support queer youth.
