AWARDS AND OTHER NOTABLES
2025 XBIZ Industry Exec Community Figure of the Year | Nominated
2024 XBIZ Industry Exec Community Figure of the Year | Nominated
2023 XBIZ Honors Marketing Exec of the Year (Ikigai Marketing) | Nominated
2022 XBIZ Industry Exec Community Figure of the Year | Nominated
2021 XBIZ Industry Exec Community Figure of the Year | Won
2020 XBIZ Industry Exec Community Figure of the Year | Nominated
2019 XBIZ Industry Exec Community Figure of the Year | Nominated
2019 XBIZ Industry Exec WIA Woman of the Year | Nominated
2018 XBIZ Industry Exec Marketing Executive of the Year | Nominated
2017 XBIZ Industry Exec Brand Ambassador of the Year | Won
RECENT INTERVIEWS/PRESS
Below is a non-exhaustive list of recent press and interviews I’ve done related to mental health and a few of the communities I serve:
The Nicholas Snow Show Podcast – Mental Health Advocate and Rising Tiktok Star (2021)
AVN Feature – Grooby’s Kristel Penn to Speak at UC Santa Barbara (2021)
Grooby’s Kristel Penn Wins 2021 XBIZ Exec Award as ‘Community Figure of the Year’ (2021)
Voyage LA (2019)
Streamate Interview (2019)
XBIZ World Special Report: Mental Health in the Industry – XBIZ World (2019)
PUBLIC SPEAKING AND WORKSHOPS
** this is a non-exhaustive list
2025 XBIZ “Trans State of the Union” (Moderator)
2024 XBIZ Miami “Radical Acts of Caring” (Panelist)
2024 XBIZ “Trans State of the Union” (Moderator)
2023 XBIZ Miami “Finding a SWer Affirming Therapist 101” (Presenter)
2023 Internext “Mental Health 411 for Models" (Presenter)
2023 XBIZ ‘Trans State of the Union’ Moderator
2022 XBIZ "Mindbrowse Presents: When Demand & Rejection Collide: Anti-Porn Activism in a Pro-Sex World" (Panelist)
2022 Grooby Camp (Executive Producer and Session Moderator)
2022 Grooby Camp “Mental Health 411 for Models” (Presenter)
2021 Grooby Camp (Executive Producer and Session Moderator)
2021 Grooby Camp “Mental Health 411 for Models” (Presenter)
2020 YNOT Cam’s #Cammunity Event “Mental Health 411 for Models” (Presenter)
2020 Kink’s “Flip the Script” Educational Series (Co-Moderator)
2019 YNOT Cam’s #Cammunity Event “Mental Health 411 for Models” (Presenter)
2018 Catalyst Con Los Angeles "Porn Tasting 101: Consumption for the Curious" (Co-Presenter)
2018 XBIZ Mindbrowse.com's "Ethical Porn in Practice" Panel (Panelist)
2017 Kink.com Workshop: Pajamas, Popcorn, and Porn: Slaying the Shame Monster Under Our Beds (Co-Presenter)
2017 AVN's R-E-S-P-E-C-T Panel (Participant)
2016 Woodhull's Sexual Freedom Summit: Cache Confidence (Co-Presenter)
2016 Contemporary Relationship Conference: Clearing the Cache (Co-Presenter)
PUBLICATIONS
2017 Bamboo Ridge Issue #110 (Poetry)
2017 Identity: In and Beyond the Binary by Dave Naz (Essay; Photos shot by Dave Naz)
2014 Genderqueer and Other Gender Identities by Dave Naz (Photos shot by Dave Naz)
2013 Bamboo Ridge Issue #100 (Short Story and Poem included)
2011 It Gets Better: Coming Out, Overcoming Bullying, and Creating a Life Worth Living edited by Dan Savage and Terry Miller (Essay)
2010 Hawaii Women's Journal (Creative Non-Fiction Essays included in Issue #1, #5)