Wayne Turner (he/him/his) is a senior attorney in the National Health Law Program’s (NHeLP) Washington, DC office, and also teaches a seminar class on LGBT Health Law and Policy at Georgetown Law School. Wayne focuses on consumer protections in Medicaid managed care, eligibility using Modified Adjusted Gross Income (MAGI) methodologies, prescription drug access, and nondiscrimination protections in health care. Wayne is the principal author of several NHeLP guides for advocates and legal services providers, as well as NHeLP’s HIV/AIDS discrimination complaint filed with the HHS Office for Civil Rights. Before making the transition to a legal career, Wayne spent more than a decade as an HIV/AIDS activist and is a founding member of the direct action group ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) in Washington, DC. He also served as the primary organizer of DC’s medical marijuana Initiative 59, which was approved by 69% of District voters in 1998. Wayne earned his B.A. at Reed College and graduated magna cum laude from the University of the District of Columbia David A. Clarke School of Law. In law school, Wayne worked as a fellow in the HIV/AIDS Legal Clinic, where he prepared living wills and standby guardianships for clients with HIV/AIDS and their children. Wayne is featured in the 2011 PBS documentary, Out in America, in which he describes the impact of the AIDS pandemic on the LGBT community through his personal account of serving as a caregiver and ultimately losing his life-partner Steve Michael, to the disease.