Demoya Gordon is a Supervising Attorney in the Law Enforcement Bureau of the New York City Commission on Human Rights, focusing on Public Accommodations and Policing. Prior to joining the Commission, Demoya worked at Lambda Legal, the oldest and largest national legal organization committed to achieving full recognition of the civil rights of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, transgender people, and people living with HIV. There, she engaged in impact litigation, policy advocacy, and public education on a range of issues affecting transgender and intersex people, including discriminatory treatment in the criminal legal system, employment, health care, education, public accommodations, and government services. Demoya’s clients at Lambda Legal included Passion Star, a Black transgender woman who faced repeated sexual and physical abuse while imprisoned in Texas. Under Demoya’s leadership, the team representing Ms. Star achieved a favorable settlement including monetary compensation as well as systemic policy changes within the Texas prison system. Demoya also led the team representing Jessica Hicklin, a White transgender woman who was denied medically necessary treatment while incarcerated in Missouri. That case resulted in a permanent injunction requiring the defendants to provide Ms. Hicklin with medically necessary gender dysphoria treatment and banning the Missouri Department of Corrections from enforcing the “freeze-frame” policy under which it denied hormone therapy to any transgender person who was not receiving such therapy prior to entering prison. Demoya brings an intersectional focus to her work by addressing how discriminatory laws, policies, and systems uniquely and disproportionately affect members of multiple marginalized communities. In recognition of her professional achievements, the National LGBT Bar Association named Demoya one of 2014’s Best LGBT Attorneys Under 40. In 2013, Lawyers of Color included Demoya on its annual list of 100 exceptional early- to mid-career minority attorneys under the age of 40. After migrating to the U.S. from Jamaica, Demoya received her undergraduate degree magna cum laude from Macalester College and her law degree from the University of California, Berkeley.