M. Currey Cook is the Director of the Youth in Out-of-Home Care Project and Counsel with 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 everyone living with HIV. Cook advocates across the country for LGBTQ youth and youth living with HIV in child welfare and juvenile justice settings and youth experiencing homelessness via impact litigation, law and policy reform and education. Before joining Lambda Legal in 2013, Cook was the Co-Director of the Bronx office of The Children’s Law Center New York, served as a consultant to The National Juvenile Defender Center in Washington, D.C , worked in Burundi on an American Bar Association’s Rule of Law Initiative to assist with reintegrate former child soldiers into the community, and was a visiting professor for the Child Advocacy Clinic at Rutgers Law School Newark. Prior to moving to New York in 2008, Cook lived in Anchorage, Alaska and was an attorney with the Office of Public Advocacy (OPA) for twelve years. Cook worked as a juvenile defense attorney and guardian ad litem and later as supervising attorney of OPA’s Child Advocacy Section. Cook was the recipient of the Alaska Bar Association Pro Bono Service Award for a Public Sector Attorney in 2006 and a Light of Hope Award for his advocacy on behalf of abused and neglected children in Alaska.Cook has served as chair of the New York City Bar Association’s Family Court and Family Law Committee and is currently a board member of the National Association of Counsel for Children. He graduated from the University of Georgia with a B.A. in Journalism (Broadcast News) and received his law degree from Mercer University in Macon, Georgia in 1994.