Brandi Ayaan Beckett

Brandi Ayaan Beckett activism and speaking engagements focus on education through humane empathy, sound logic, and valid reasoning, while telling entertaining stories about her interesting journeys; and she always has insightful points of view on transgender movements and rights. Beckett’s Journey of self-discovery is a fascinating story of stepping outside of one’s comfort zone to find one’s true self; and the passion in which she says that story will keep you entertained and enthralled throughout that real-life journey.

In 2012, Beckett started a journey of self-exploration based on two fundamental principles: one, to ask herself earnest and ardent questions about herself, and two, to always answer those questions with sincerity and brutal-honesty, and to use the best epistemological tools within her grasp to get to those truths. At the start of this journey, her epistemological tool belt was quite anemic and held together with fallacious fabric, but soon she learned basic critical thinking skills and how logical structure of argument works.

By 2013, Beckett had resigned from the Department of Defense and challenged herself to go back to school. After completing just one semester at Hillsborough Community College, she was accepted into their Honors Institute program and was awarded a Presidential scholarship; by the time she graduated from H.C.C. with her Associate of Arts Degree, she had received multiple national recognitions for her academic achievements, and Beckett earned a full-ride scholarship to Mount Holyoke College. in 2018, Beckett graduated from Mount Holyoke College, and became the second transgender woman to ever graduate from an Ivy-League all women's college.

She has been a featured speaker at a national transgender convention, a moderator for the Black, Brown, and College Bound, National Conference, a featured speaker for a college lecture series, Honor's Institute campus tour guide, and numerous in person speaking engagements across New England and throughout the United States.