Wayne Turner (he/him/his) is a senior attorney in the National Health Law Program’s (NHeLP) Washington, DC office, and also teaches a seminar class on LGBT Health Law and Policy at Georgetown Law School. Wayne focuses on consumer protections in Medicaid managed care, Medicaid eligibility methodologies, prescription drug access, and nondiscrimination protections in health care. He is the principal author of several guides for legal advocates, and was the principal attorney in an HIV discrimination case that NHeLP initiated at the HHS Office for civil rights in 2014. Before making the transition to a legal career, Wayne spent more than a decade as an HIV/AIDS activist and is a founding member of the direct-action group ACT UP in Washington, DC. He also served as the primary organizer of DC’s medical marijuana Initiative 59, which was approved by 69% of District voters in 1998. Wayne earned his B.A. at Reed College and graduated magna cum laude from the University of the District of Columbia David A. Clarke School of Law. He is featured in the 2011 PBS documentary, Out in America, in which he describes the impact of the HIV pandemic through his personal experience as a caregiver for his life partner Steve Michael, who died from AIDS-related complications in 1998.