Michael Cole
Senior Communications and Media Center Manager
Michael Cole manages the Human Rights Campaign’s state-of-the-art, in-house media center, producing material for HRC town hall meetings, gala dinners and other events, as well as the award-winning hrc.org. He leads the team that produces “Equally Speaking” — a daily gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender news webcast on the HRC website. Cole also produces “The Agenda with Joe Solmonese” — HRC’s weekly live radio show exclusively on XM Satellite Radio. He serves as the program’s lead correspondent, producing packages in the field to capture the breadth and depth of the GLBT community. Prior to this position he worked on the HRC press staff advancing a message of fairness in the media. Cole focused on local media markets bringing him to more than a dozen states promoting GLBT equality everywhere from church basements in Topeka, Kan., to the steps of the Supreme Judicial Court in Boston. Before joining the Human Rights Campaign he worked at the U.S. Embassy to Belgium and the U.S. House of Representatives.