Trans Can Work, a transgender workers' advocacy organization. She wanted to work at a center that shared her interest in that topic, and that is also committed to housing programs for LGBTQ people."It just so happens the Sacramento LGBT center was looking for exactly that," she said.
The capital city's center — which, as the B.A.R. reported last year is in the midst of an expansion — serves as a model for what centers can look like in medium-sized cities, VanKuiken said, where services to the LGBTQ community are not as readily available as in larger cities. "Sacramento isn't New York; it isn't L.A.," VanKuiken said. "It's like the cities where I grew up in the Midwest.