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The Human Rights Campaign represents a force of more than 1.5 million members and supporters nationwide. As the largest national lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer civil rights organization, HRC envisions an America where LGBTQ people are ensured of their basic equal rights, and can be open, honest and safe at home, at work and in the community.
As President of the Human Rights Campaign, Chad Griffin has led HRC to new heights, from expanding HRC's work in the Deep South and around the globe, to spearheading a renewed focus on combating HIV and AIDS, to confronting the epidemic of anti-transgender violence and launching the largest voter mobilization effort in the history of the LGBTQ movement. Read Bio
Joni Madison
Joni Madison is the Chief Operating Officer and Chief of Staff of the Human Rights Campaign. Read Bio
Communications and Marketing
Olivia Alair Dalton
Olivia Alair Dalton is HRC's Senior Vice President of Communications & Marketing. In this role, she leads HRC’s comprehensive, multi-faceted communications and marketing efforts that highlight the ongoing work of the organization to fight for protections for LGBTQ people at the federal, state, and local level, and to improve the lived experiences of all LGBTQ Americans. Read Bio
Stephen Peters
Stephen Peters is the National Press Secretary for the Human Rights Campaign, where he has served since September 2014. Read Bio
Sarah McBride
Sarah McBride is the National Press Secretary for the Human Rights Campaign. Read Bio
Nick Morrow
Nick Morrow is the Press Secretary for the Southern States – Project One America at the Human Rights Campaign, where he focuses on LGBTQ rights in the American South. Read Bio
Allison Turner
Allison Turner is the Assistant Press Secretary for the Human Rights Campaign, where she writes HRC's daily tipsheet, #AM_Equality; and hosts HRC's video news program, Daily Equality. Read Bio
Diversity and Inclusion
Nicole Cozier
Nicole Cozier joined the staff of the Human Rights Campaign as the Director of Diversity and Inclusion in February 2016. Read Bio
General Counsel
Robert Falk
Rob Falk serves as the Human Rights Campaign’s General Counsel and joined the organization in 2006. He supports the organization’s work by advising both the Human Rights Campaign and the Human Rights Campaign Foundation on legal issues including election and campaign finance law, non-profit tax issues, real estate, human resources matters and intellectual property. Read Bio
Darrin Hurwitz
Darrin Hurwitz serves as Deputy General Counsel for the Human Rights Campaign. Hurwitz provides advice to the organization on political compliance issues including federal and state campaign finance and lobbying disclosure regulation as well as on other non-profit management matters. Read Bio
Policy and Political Affairs
JoDee Winterhof
JoDee Winterhof, a veteran political strategist and respected advocate with over 20 years of experience in navigating the complex intersection between politics, campaigns, messaging and public policy, currently serves as Senior Vice President for Policy and Political Affairs for the Human Rights Campaign. Read Bio
Jennifer Pike Bailey
Jennifer Pike Bailey joined the Human Rights Campaign in 2012 and serves as HRC’s Senior Public Policy Advocate, where she works with Congress to advance pro-equality legislation. Read Bio
Lynne Bowman
Lynne Bowman currently serves as a Senior Regional Field Director working in the eighteen state Northeast - Mid Atlantic - Midwest region. Read Bio
Jeremy Kadden
Jeremy Kadden joined the Human Rights Campaign in August 2014 as Senior International Policy Advocate. He focuses on working with the U.S. Congress and the Executive Branch to advance an LGBTQ-inclusive U.S. foreign policy. Read Bio
Andrea Levario
As Senior Public Policy Advocate, Andrea Levario legislative portfolio is focused on taxes, employment related benefits, ending discrimination in the workplace and health care. She is also the primary contact for the midwestern and western regions. Read Bio
Robin Maril
Robin Maril serves as associate legal director at the Human Rights Campaign. Her work focuses on federal programs and administrative policies that impact the LGBTQ community. Read Bio
Mike Mings
Mike Mings is the director of the Human Rights Campaign's Political Action Committee, the largest PAC dedicated to equality for LGBTQ Americans and one of the largest PACs in the country. Read Bio
Cathryn Oakley
Cathryn Oakley is responsible for assisting local legislators and advocates to enact laws that further LGBTQ equality. She is also responsible for developing, conducting, and publishing the Municipal Equality Index, a nationwide evaluation of municipal laws affecting the LGBTQ community. Read Bio
Xavier Persad
Xavier Persad serves as legislative counsel at the Human Rights Campaign, his focus includes state and municipal advocacy as well as conversion therapy related legislation. Xavier serves HRC’s Project One America as well as the legal department’s annual Municipal Equality Index publication. Read Bio
Jeremy Pittman
Jeremy Pittman joined the Human Rights Campaign in early 2007 as Deputy Field Director. He manages the day-to-day operations of HRC's talented field organizing team and coordinates organizing activities between HRC staff working in policy, politics and communications and HRC's volunteer leadership across the country. Read Bio
Marty Rouse
As National Field Director, Marty Rouse is tasked with mobilizing the Human Rights Campaign's more than one and a half million members and supporters to effect change at the federal, state and local level. Read Bio
David Stacy
David Stacy’s federal legislative advocacy portfolio at the Human Rights Campaign includes marriage and relationship recognition, hate crimes, immigration, Social Security and the District of Columbia. Read Bio
Sarah Warbelow
Sarah Warbelow leads HRC’s team of lawyers and fellows focused on federal, state, and municipal policy. She also coordinates HRC's advocacy efforts as amicus curiae ("friend of the court") in litigation affecting the LGBTQ community. Read Bio
Hope Errico Wisneski
Hope Errico Wisneski serves as the Regional Field Director working in the US West where she maintains and expands HRC’s ability to mobilize grassroots advocacy on behalf of federal and state LGBTQ legislative priorities. In this capacity, she also designs and implements grassroots electoral and campaign strategies in support of federal and state candidates, and ballot initiatives, in the region. Read Bio
Project One America
Ben Needham
Ben Needham is the Director of Project One America, HRC’s comprehensive, multi-year effort to expand LGBTQ equality in the South through permanent campaigns in Alabama, Arkansas and Mississippi. Read Bio
Eva Kendrick
Eva Kendrick serves as the Human Rights Campaign's Alabama State Manager. Read Bio
Rob Hill
Rob Hill serves as state director of HRC Mississippi. As part of the Human Rights Campaign’s Project One America, Rob and his team lead the effort to bring equality to LGBTQ people throughout Mississippi. Read Bio
Kendra Johnson
As state director of HRC Arkansas, Kendra Johnson leads the organization’s Project One America effort across the state to bring equality to LGBTQ people. Read Bio
Public Education and Outreach
Mary Beth Maxwell
A longtime leader in social justice movements, Mary Beth (M.B.) Maxwell leads the groundbreaking and innovative efforts of HRC’s educational arm, the HRC Foundation. Read Bio
Beck Bailey
Beck Bailey is the Deputy Director of Employee Engagement at the Human Rights Campaign Foundation. His work in the HRC Foundation’s Workplace Equality Program focuses on helping America’s workplaces become more LGBTQ-inclusive through employee engagement, training and education. Read Bio
Ty Cobb
Ty Cobb is a member of the senior management team at the Human Rights Campaign Foundation, the public education and outreach arm of the largest LGBTQ civil rights organization in the United States. Read Bio
Liz Cooper
Liz Cooper joined the Workplace Project in August 2010. As Manager, Liz engages directly with employers to identify and improve LGBTQ-inclusive policies and practices. Read Bio
Alison Delpercio
Alison Delpercio is the deputy director of the Children, Youth & Families Program at the Human Rights Campaign Foundation, where she advocates for LGBTQ-welcoming and affirming practices within child welfare agencies and broader youth-serving organizations. Alison manages HRC's All Children - All Families project and provides organizations with in-depth training and technical assistance on improving their practice with LGBTQ youth and families. Read Bio
Johanna Eager
Johanna Eager has been involved with equity issues in E/K-12 education for over 20 years as a professional educator. Read Bio
Deena Fidas
Deena Fidas is the director of the Workplace Equality Program and leads the Corporate Equality Index survey and annual report to over 1,200 major employers, corporate public policy outreach and research on emerging workplace inclusion topics. Read Bio
Candace Gingrich
Since 1995, Candace Gingrich has served as a key advocate for issues of importance to the LGBTQ community. Their involvement in the movement for queer equality began when her brother, Rep. Newt Gingrich, R-GA., was elected House speaker. Read Bio
Tari Hanneman
Tari Hanneman is the Director of the Health Equality Project at the Human Rights Campaign Foundation. In that capacity she oversees the annual LGBTQ Healthcare Equality Index and other projects related to LGBTQ health, HIV, and aging. Read Bio
Ashland Johnson
As Director of Public Education and Research, Ashland shapes HRC’s approach to generating research and educational campaigns. Read Bio
Ellen Kahn
Ellen Kahn is the Director of the Human Rights Campaign Foundation's Children, Youth & Families Program, where she provides national leadership and expertise in public education and advocacy efforts to achieve full equality for LGBTQ families. Read Bio
Dr. Vincent “Vinnie” Pompei
Dr. Vincent “Vinnie” Pompei is the Director of the Youth Well-Being Project at the Human Rights Campaign Foundation. One of his primary roles at HRC is to chair Time to THRIVE, an annual national conference for educators and other youth-serving professionals to promote safety, inclusion and well-being for LGBTQ youth. Read Bio
Lisbeth Melendez Rivera
As the Director of Latino and Catholic Initiatives, Lisbeth will deepen the already impressive reach of work with Latino/a communities and will in addition help us to develop and implement Catholic engagement work across the organization. Read Bio
Marvell Terry
Marvell L. Terry, II was raised in Memphis, Tennessee and Founder of The Red Door Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization focused on improving the health outcomes of Black LGBTQ men in Memphis and Southeast region of the United States. He currently resides in Washington, DC where he is the first HIV & AIDS Project Manager for the Human Rights Campaign. Read Bio
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