Marty Rouse
National Field Director
As National Field Director, Marty Rouse is tasked with mobilizing the Human Rights Campaign’s 650,000+ members to effect change at the federal, state, and local level. Before joining HRC, Rouse headed MassEquality, a coalition of organizations dedicated to defending marriage equality in Massachusetts. Rouse’s direction helped build MassEquality into one of the state’s largest and most powerful political groups – a national model that combined grassroots organizing with strategic electoral focus.
Rouse’s deep political and field experience also includes his work in Vermont to protect the pro-civil unions majority in the state Senate in 2000. He also served in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development during the Clinton administration. Rouse and his civil union partner Scott Sherman are proud parents of their two sons Sasha and David.