Rose Saxe is a Deputy Director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s LGBT & HIV Project. She has specialized in issues of employment and public accommodation discrimination, denial of medical care, family law issues, and the intersection of civil rights for LGBTQ people, and religious freedom and expression, through litigation and state and federal policy advocacy. She previously co-taught the Columbia Law School Gender & Sexuality Law Clinic. She clerked for Judge Sonia Sotomayor on the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and Judge Janet Bond Arterton on the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut. Rose received her J.D. from Yale Law School and her B.A. from Georgetown University.