Joel Baum is responsible for overseeing all aspects of Gender Spectrum’s professional development programs. He facilitates trainings, develops curriculum, consults with caregivers and professionals, and provides resources in service of a more compassionate understanding of gender and young people. As the founding member and director of education for the Child and Adolescent Gender Center at UCSF-Benioff Children's Hospital, he is frequently called upon to help institutions think more expansively about the gender diversity of all children and teens, and find ways to create more gender-inclusive conditions accordingly. While being an educator for more than thirty years, he has also served as a school reform coach with the National Equity Project and a professor in the Department of Educational Leadership at California State University, East Bay.