Jennifer C. Pizer is the Law and Policy Director for Lambda Legal, the oldest and largest national legal organization committed to achieving full recognition of the civil rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people and people living with HIV. Since joining Lambda Legal’s staff in 1996, Pizer has been a leading voice for […]

Sean Bland is a Senior Associate with the Infectious Diseases Initiative at the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University Law Center and works on HIV/AIDS law and policy initiatives. Starting in August 2022, Sean will be an Assistant Professor at Santa Clara University School of Law. Sean holds a Juris […]

Grover Cleveland is a sought-after speaker on law career success and the author of Swimming Lessons for Baby Sharks: The Essential Guide to Thriving as a New Lawyer. He is a former partner at Foster Pepper in Seattle, WA. While in private practice, he represented the late Microsoft co-founder, Paul Allen, and many of his […]

M. Geron Gadd is a Senior Attorney in the National Health Law Program’s Chapel Hill, North Carolina offices, where she focuses on litigation to enforce the rights of people with disabilities to vital services and long-term supports and to eliminate artificial barriers to health care. Geron has worked to expand access to community-based health and […]

Bendita Cynthia Malakia is a global justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion (JEDI) executive and talent cultivation expert whose aim is to ensure that individuals that are underrepresented, underserved and underestimated can thrive in the workplace. She serves as the Director of Diversity & Engagement at O’Melveny & Myers and the Founder & C-Suite JEDI Consultant […]

Murray Scheel is a senior staff attorney at Whitman-Walker Health in Washington, DC, the nation’s oldest medical-legal partnership, dedicated to queer and HIV health. He focuses on legal services and policy initiatives to address the needs of elderly individuals who are trans, lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, or genderqueer or living with HIV/AIDS. He came to Whitman-Walker […]

Charlie Arrowood (they/them) is an attorney licensed in New York state. They primarily provide transition-related legal services to transgender clients, including name and gender marker change assistance.  Charlie previously served as Name Change Project Counsel at the Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund (TLDEF), where they managed the Name Change Project’s advocacy efforts and provided […]

Iván Espinoza-Madrigal is the Executive Director of Lawyers for Civil Rights (LCR), an organization founded at the request of President Kennedy in the 1960s at the height of the civil rights movement. Under his leadership, LCR has become a hub for litigation, advocacy and resistance in response to social challenges. Iván has filed and won dozens of life-changing and law-changing cases on […]

Mia Frances Yamamoto is one of the most distinguished and successful criminal defense attorneys in Southern California. She has tried over 200 jury trials and represented thousands of clients accused of criminal offenses, including murder, assault, sex offenses, drug offenses, theft, white-collar offenses, regulatory offenses and DUI. She has been honored by the Criminal Courts […]

C.P. Hoffman (they/she) serves as Senior Policy Counsel at the National Center for Transgender Equality. Prior to joining NCTE, they served as Legal Director and Policy Director of FreeState Justice, Maryland’s statewide LGBTQ+ advocacy organization; worked in-house advising the nation’s leading digital accessibility service’s firm on trends in accessibility litigation; practiced antitrust law in New York City; and published broadly on […]