Drawing on decades of on-the-ground community work, Rev. Dr. Megan Rohrer explores how spiritual values can fuel sustained advocacy — from neighborhood organizing to digital campaigns. This session will touch on using storytelling and public history as tools for justice, navigating social media and online platforms as spaces for community building and visibility, and sustaining activist work without losing the spiritual grounding at its center. Participants will leave with practical strategies and renewed inspiration for carrying their values into the public square.

Rev. Dr. Megan Rohrer is a San Francisco-based community leader, historian, artist, and advocate with decades of experience at the intersection of faith, social justice, and community care. A nationally recognized voice on spirituality and advocacy, Megan has supported marginalized, unhoused, and LGBTQ communities throughout his career and has been featured by Netflix’s Queer Eye, People, Cosmopolitan, and media outlets worldwide. Megan was recently received into the ChI Clergy community at the Chaplaincy Institute’s June ordination ceremony.

An award-winning author of more than 50 books, Megan writes on LGBTQ history, spirituality, and social change. His work includes the Arcadia Publishing bestseller documenting the history of San Francisco’s Transgender District, and he was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in transgender nonfiction. As a filmmaker and public historian, Megan received international recognition for the documentary Zanderology.

Megan’s community leadership has been honored alongside His Holiness the Dalai Lama through Wisdom in Action, and his interfaith engagement has taken him to events including the 500th Anniversary of the Reformation in Wittenberg, Germany. He currently serves as Policy Director at Compass Family Services in San Francisco, where he continues to advocate for a more compassionate and just world.