Taylor Brown (she/her) is a Staff Attorney in the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and HIV Project at the National Headquarters of the American Civil Liberties Union in New York City. Taylor litigates civil rights lawsuits nationally, to defend and expand the civil rights and liberties of LGBTQ+ people and all people living with HIV. Taylor […]

Peter focuses his practice on regulatory, compliance and transactional matters relating to commodities, derivatives, and securities products regulated by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). For over 20 years, Peter has assisted clients in the United States and overseas on numerous transactions involving over-the-counter and exchange-traded […]

Robyn Gigl is the author of BY WAY OF SORROW. She is also an attorney and activist who has been honored by the ACLU-NJ and the NJ Pride Network for her work on behalf of the LGBTQ+ community. Robyn is a partner at Gluck Walrath, LLP in Freehold, NJ, where she handles complex commercial and […]

Taylor Small of Winooski, Chittenden County, Progressive/Democrat, was born in Portland, Maine. She was raised in western Massachusetts and moved to Vermont with her family in 2010. Small graduated from both Colchester High School and Burlington Technical Center in 2012. She then graduated from the University of Vermont with a bachelor’s degree in human development […]

Monisha Harrell (she/her), a Seattle native, is Board Chair for Equal Rights Washington and chairs the National LGBTQ Task Force Action Fund. Monisha has served as a fellow for Lifelong AIDS Alliance, co-chair of the Capitol Hill LGBTQ Public Safety Task Force, an appointee to the City of Seattle’s 2017 search committee for the new […]

Avery Belyeu came to Lambda Legal from the Education Development Center, a Massachusetts-based nonprofit where she focused on suicide prevention strategy with the National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention. In this role, she worked with senior leaders in the private and public sectors to advance suicide prevention strategy nationwide. Prior to that, Belyeu worked at […]

Tim R. Johnston, PhD is the Senior Director of National Projects at SAGE. In that role he oversees the SAGECare cultural competency training program, the National Resource Center on LGBT Aging, key aspects of SAGE’s housing initiative, SAGE’s diversity and equity initiative, and national partnerships with other advocacy organizations. Tim is the author of Welcoming […]

Christine is a Senior Director of Legal Affairs at T-Mobile, advising senior executives and their teams on a wide variety of complex legal and business matters. Recently described by a client as “relentlessly working to set us up for success”, she and her team of versatile transactional and product lawyers support product & technology transactions, […]

Heron Greenesmith monitors anti-LGBTQI rhetoric as a Senior Research Analyst at Political Research Associates and is an adjunct faculty member at Boston University School of Law. Heron has worked in progressive advocacy spaces for over a decade with the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs, the Movement Advancement Project, Family Equality Council, and the National LGBTQ […]