Our Work & Projects
Advance Maryland serves our community by partnering with organizations across the state who share our values and vision for Maryland. In addition to our partner work, we invest in several projects and coalitions with sustained, in-depth efforts. Members of our team serve on their leadership teams, and guide strategic planning, digital, and communications, and policy advocacy. We often run social media accounts, lead legislative strategy, provide operational support, create media guides, write press releases, and much more.
The Trans Rights Advocacy Coalition (TRAC) is a trans-led group organizing to improve the wellbeing of transgender Marylanders, & ensure that all of us are able to live safe, affirming, & prosperous lives. In 2023, TRAC led a successful push to pass the Trans Health Equity Act, which mandates that Maryland Medicaid cover gender-affirming care.There’s still plenty of work to do to protect and expand the rights of trans Marylanders. From protecting access to gender-affirming care to ensuring that incarcerated trans people are treated with dignity, the work continues.
In addition to the sustained, in-depth work we do with our other projects and coalitions, our team provides on-call strategic, communications, and digital support to many other efforts and organizations. Our team has worked with Renters United Maryland to expand and strengthen Maryland’s tenant protection laws, provided critical messaging guidance about threats to abortion access, and successfully advocated for legislation and an Executive Order to protect gender affirming care in Maryland.
Our efforts are stronger when we undertake them together. That’s why our team is working to build a progressive communications hub in Maryland – a place where progressive advocates working on a wide array of policy issues can come together to strategize, create, and amplify our shared goals and values. If you’re interested in joining our effort, please
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