Sarah Warbelow is the Legal Director for the Human Rights Campaign leading HRC’s team of lawyers and fellows focused on federal, state, and municipal policy, domestic and international impact litigation, and amicus curiae advocacy. She also coordinates HRC’s advocacy efforts as amicus curiae (“friend of the court”) in litigation affecting the LGBTQ community. Warbelow joined […]

Olivia Hunt is Policy Director at the National Center for Transgender Equality, which advocates to change policies and society to increase understanding and acceptance of transgender people. She works with state and national coalition partners and government officials to craft policies on issues affecting transgender people, primarily focusing on identity documents and privacy. In 2015 […]

Gavin Quinn is an Assistant State’s Attorney at the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, a position he has held for almost 5 years. Gavin is currently assigned to the Cook County Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force within the Child Advocacy and Protection Unit handling primarily child pornography and internet […]

Stephen Kulp is an accomplished litigator with a proven track record of success managing complex civil litigation matters for a variety of sectors, including the transportation and logistics, construction, and retail and hospitality industries. Stephen’s pragmatic and solutions-focused representation has resulted in substantial victories for his clients in the courtroom and through motion practice. Stephen […]

Justice Shawna S. Baker was nominated to the Cherokee Nation Supreme Court by Chief Chuck Hoskin, Jr. and confirmed by a vote of the Tribal Council on August 27, 2020. She is the first LGBT member and only the third woman ever confirmed to the Cherokee Nation Supreme Court. Justice Baker’s first written opinion was […]

Judge Lee received his undergraduate degree from Jacksonville University where he placed on the President’s Honor Roll.  He was also awarded a Master of Arts degree in History Humanities from California State University at Dominguez Hills.  He received his law degree with honors from the University of Florida where he served as a Senior Editor […]

Todd Brower is the Judicial Education Director for the Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation Law and Public Policy at UCLA School of Law. He is a professor of Constitutional Law at Western State College of Law in California, and is the Director of the Institute for Global Law and Policy there.  He has an LL.M […]

Denny serves as Justice in Aging’s inaugural Directing Attorney for Equity Advocacy. In this role, he is responsible for developing and leading Justice in Aging’s Strategic Initiative on Advancing Equity, with a primary focus on race equity for older adults of color, and he also coordinates the organization’s equity team. He joined Justice in Aging […]

Shelly Skeen (pronouns: she/her) is a Senior Attorney for Lambda Legal, the oldest and largest national legal organization committed to achieving the full recognition of civil rights for lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, transgender people and everyone living with HIV. With twenty years of experience as a practicing attorney, Shelly brings to Lambda Legal her experience […]

Ren Gaffney (she/they) currently serves as General Counsel at Convergent Energy + Power, a developer whose mission is to make the electrical grid cleaner, more reliable, and less expensive by leveraging state-of-the-art energy storage and distributed solar generation. As General Counsel, Ren oversees and manages all legal decision-making, legal risk allocation, and compliance functions of […]