Georgia Black Award Lorrainne Sade Baskerville is an American social worker, activist, and trans woman best known for founding transgender advocacy group transGENESIS.

[2] When AIDS struck a member of her family in the mid-1980s, Baskerville began to volunteer at Howard Brown Health Center and Horizons Community Services.

[3] Baskerville graduated with an Associate in Applied Science with a concentration in Mental Health: Alcoholism & Substance Abuse Counseling from Harold Washington College in 1991.

Baskerville founded transGENESIS to address issues of gender identity, substance abuse, HIV/AIDS, sex work, harm reduction, and self-empowerment.

[6] In addition to her work with transGENESIS, Baskerville was involved in multiple conferences and panels on issues of trans rights, HIV/AIDS awareness, and anti-LGBT violence.

[2] In 2014, she self-published a memoir detailing her experience moving to Thailand, her relationship with her late partner Bruce Lomar and her activist work titled One Trans Woman's Spiritual Journey.