Sharita Gruberg is the Policy Director for the LGBT Research and Communications Project at the Center for American Progress. In that role, she leads the organization’s federal policy work advancing LGBT equality and combating discrimination. Prior to joining American Progress, Sharita worked for the Women’s Refugee Commission, the American Bar Association Commission on Immigration, and the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees. Sharita earned her J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center, where she was a Public Interest Law Scholar, and she also received the Refugees and Humanitarian Emergencies Certificate from the Institute for the Study of International Migration. She holds a B.A. in political science and women’s studies from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.