Dylan Waguespack is the Public Policy and External Affairs Director at True Colors United, where he develops, directs, and implements their federal, state, and local regulatory and legislative public policy agenda. He currently serves as a co-chair of the National Policy Coalition of the Every Child Deserves a Family Campaign, a group that fights federal policy efforts that seek to grant government-funded child welfare contract agencies a license to discriminate against same-sex couples and people of differing faiths. Before joining True Colors United, Waguespack was a lobbyist and political consultant working in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and Washington, D.C. In the fall of 2018, Waguespack was the Creative Director for the Unanimous Jury Coalition and the Yes on Amendment 2 campaign to require unanimous juries for felony convictions, which passed with 64 percent of the vote. He led the digital components of the 2017 Louisiana Justice Reinvestment effort to successfully pass ten landmark criminal justice reform bills — together, the most progressive package of criminal justice reforms passed by a state legislature in modern US history. Before opening his lobbying and political consulting firm, Waguespack served as Executive Director of Louisiana Progress, the progressive movement-building partnership where he started his career as an intern in 2011. While there, he drafted and successfully lobbied for a number of bills to expand opportunity for children, youth, and families impacted by homelessness, including protection from eviction for survivors of domestic abuse, expanded eligibility for child care assistance for families experiencing homelessness, and in-state tuition and campus housing for current and formerly homeless and foster youth in postsecondary education. Waguespack is a proud New Orleanian and a graduate of Ben Franklin High School. He lives in Northeast D.C. with his partner, Matthew, and his dog, Ham.