Hera Jay is the Executive Projects Associate at Beyond.

Prior to Beyond, she founded Sanctuarium, a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting Transgender, Intersex, and Gender Variant (TIGV) immigrant communities in the US with support from the Rhodes Trust at the University of Oxford. In this role, she launched several programs focused on access and support and created collaborative workshops with community leaders and universities in California and Illinois.

Hera Jay completed her Master's training at the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. Prior to Oxford, she held several positions in the research, nonprofit, and policy sectors. She has received multiple awards and recognitions for her work including the Fulbright-Schuman Graduate Research Fellowship to the European Union, the Rhodes Scholarship, the Rhodes Service Year Award, the University of Tennessee's Chancellor's Medallion, and the Gilman International Scholarship to Jordan. She has also written about and presented her work with numerous universities, non-profits, and academic conferences in the US and Europe.

A desire to advance the rights of and protections for marginalized communities around the globe remains the core driver throughout all of her work.