In 1995 Nancy began producing and hosting "GenderTalk", a radio talk show about gender, transgender issues and progressive politics airing weekly on WMBR-FM in Cambridge, MA, and worldwide at www.gendertalk.com. She was joined in this effort by her partner Gordene O. MacKenzie in 1999, and in April 2000 GenderTalk received the GLAAD award for "Outstanding LGBT Radio". GenderTalk is supported and distributed by a website which archives over 400 programs and receives tens of thousands of visitors monthly. While the production of GenderTalk ended in late 2006, the website continues as a significant transgender community resource, with juried resource listings, and original works, both editorial and artistic.
Nancy has made pivotal presentations on gender issues to the American Psychological Association, the Human Rights Campaign in Washington, Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders in Boston, Lucent and Bell Atlantic Corporations, MIT and Harvard University, University of New Mexico, and many, many more. She has appeared on local and national commercial 
prime-time radio and television broadcasts to discuss issues of gender and transsexualism. She was profiled in a groundbreaking A&E Investigative Reports piece titled "The Transgender Revolution," which originally aired October 5, 1998.
Nancy transitioned to living as a woman in early 1993, and soon became a prominent voice in the emerging Transgender movement. From 1997 to 1998 she served as executive director of the International Foundation for Gender Education, a leading transgender education and outreach organization. She has published many articles on transgender activism and current events in Transgender Tapestry magazine, and has written lead articles for Sojourner, the Women's Forum; The Boston Phoenix; GCN, The National Queer Progressive Quarterly, and more.
Nancy founded the Boston chapter of The Transexual Menace, a 'disorganization' of transgender activists, and co-initiated a nationwide campaign to put a stop to violence against transgenders by direct action. She was a lead 
organizer and participant in demonstrations in Kansas City, Falls City Nebraska, Colorado Springs, Washington DC, Chicago, Burlington Vermont and Boston. She led Boston's Transgender Pride contingent for several years, and authored the amendment to the Cambridge Human Rights Ordinance which passed unanimously and broke new legislative ground in providing broad protection for freedom of gender expression and identity. She co-edited and published "In Your Face, the journal of political activism against gender oppression", the first periodical to chronicle hate crimes committed against transgender persons.
Nancy is a lobbyist for transgender rights and inclusion on national and local levels, and has conducted trans diversity trainings for the Human Rights Campaign national board of directors and governors, as well as local chapters of GLAD, Planned Parenthood, Lucent Technologies, Verizon and Bell Atlantic. She has received awards for her activist efforts from the City of Cambridge, the 
Massachusetts Gay & Lesbian Political Alliance, the International Foundation for Gender Education, the Hero's Journey Conference, Boston's Transgender Education Network, and the Fantasia Fair.
An MIT graduate, Nancy worked for over 20 years as an electronics design engineer, most recently via an independent consultancy named Nangeroni Design.
Nancy is an avid musician, whose uptempo and original music counterpoints a call for diversity, mutual respect, and above all, fun.
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