Merissa Nathan Gerson’s writing appears in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Playboy, Tablet, Lilith, and beyond. She was the inherited trauma consultant to Amazon’s Emmy-winning show Transparent and the author of “Ask Your Yenta,” an advice column syndicated by The Jewish Journal. The founder of KenMeansYes.org, a consent advocacy organization, Merissa speaks nationwide on inherited trauma, consent education, and Jewish sex education.