Omar Gonzalez-Pagan is Counsel and the Health Care Strategist at Lambda Legal, the oldest and largest national legal organization committed to achieving full recognition of the civil rights of LGBTQ people and people living with HIV. He has played a critical role in advancing the rights of LGBTQ people under the U.S. Constitution and federal […]

Stephen Kulp (he/him) is an associate at Tucker Law Group in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is an accomplished litigator and manages complex civil litigation matters for a variety of sectors, including the transportation and logistics, construction, and retail and hospitality industries. He is the first openly LGBTQ+ attorney of color to serve on the Board of […]

Nikki Hatza (she/her) is a litigator focusing her practice on commercial litigation, investigations, education law, and government affairs. She has experience assisting financial services clients with anti-money laundering matters and investigations by state and federal regulators. She also assists government clients in election law matters. Nikki has a teaching background and brings that experience to […]

Stella Bidereman is a mathematician and theoretical computer scientist who specializes in the design and analysis of algorithms. Currently, she works at Booz Allen Hamilton with computational social science researchers to develop new models and algorithms to support their work. She is active in EleutherAI, a group of AI researchers building open-source large language models. […]

Laura has extensive litigation and trial experience. She has litigated against the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing in systemic actions both at the early charge stage and in large-scale EEOC pattern-and-practice litigation. In addition, Laura has helped clients secure defense verdicts in the California Superior Courts […]

Masheika Allgood is an AI Ethicist and the founder of AllAI Consulting, LLC, a platform for providing AI education across various industries to people with non-tech and non-AI backgrounds. The company’s goal is to create an AI literate society, allowing citizens from all walks of life to feel comfortable engaging in discussions on the use […]

Rachel See serves as EEOC Commissioner Keith Sonderling’s Senior Counsel for AI and Algorithmic Bias. She works with Commissioner Sonderling to emphasize the applicability of the EEOC’s role in the growing field of AI and machine learning. Rachel previously served as the EEOC’s Acting Executive Officer and as a Special Assistant to the Chair. As […]

Ming Wong is the Supervising Helpline Attorney at the National Center for Lesbian Rights, and runs their Rural Pride program, whose aim is to build connections between national and local advocacy and community organizations and community leaders in rural communities, to ensure that the concerns facing LGBTQ+ people in rural communities inform all of our […]

Stephen Kulp (he/him) is an associate at Tucker Law Group in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is an accomplished litigator and manages complex civil litigation matters for a variety of sectors, including the transportation and logistics, construction, and retail and hospitality industries. He is the first openly LGBTQ+ attorney of color to serve on the Board of […]

Michael W. Fitzgerald is a United States District Judge for the Central District of California. He was appointed in 2012. He was the second openly gay man to be appointed an Article III judge, and was the first LGBTQ+ Article III judge outside of Manhattan. Before his appointment, Judge Fitzgerald practiced at Corbin, Fitzgerald & […]