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Diane Alcala
Diane Alcalá is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. With family background of community service and activism a focal point of her clinical work is equity and justice in housing employment and education. She has worked with diverse populations in various community based agencies. Currently she is with the National Health Service Core providing psychotherapy services to under served communities. She has a small private practice with a focus on children, youth and families. With other Queer family members residing in the city of San Francisco. Diane is fully committed to serving the LGBTQ community. She resides in the Richmond District of San Francisco with her partner of 7 years, Victoria.
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Heather Akers-Healy
Heather is a volunteer with Out4Immigration, an organization that advocates on issues relating to same-sex binational couples. She has a degree in Anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley. She lives in San Francisco with her partner.
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Jackson Bowman
Through his work with the L.I.F.E. Program at The Shanti Project, and previously through UCSF and Larkin Street Youth Services, Jackson has had the opportunity to impact the health and wellbeing of HIV positive people and those that are at high risk for HIV. Jackson is committed to the equality, health and empowerment of his community, especially those that face poverty, homelessness, substance abuse and mental illness. He is excited to be part of the LGBT Advisory Committee and proud to add his contribution to this work.
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Derek Brocklehurst
My name is Derek Brocklehurst. I'm 29 years old, born and raised in the Bay Area. I graduated from the University of California Berkeley with my B.A. in Biology in 2006. Shortly after that, I graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a B.S. in Nursing in 2008. I'm an infectious disease registered nurse working at Quest Clinical Research on Hepatitis C and HIV clinical trials. My hobbies include gardening, playing the trombone, mountain biking, snow skiing, camping, and practicing zen buddhism.
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Corrin Buchanan
Corrin Buchanan is currently pursuing a Masters degree in Public Policy at UC Berkeley with an emphasis in equitable urban development and economic justice. Before returning to graduate school she was the Community Programs Director at The San Francisco Women’s Building where she oversaw their financial education, job search assistance, immigrant food pantry, and wellness programs. Corrin came to the Bay Area in 2002 as an AmericorpsVISTA volunteer and decided to make san Francisco her home. While studying abroad in Mexico City she interned with their city’s own Commission on Human Rights.
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Stephen Downey
Stephen is a mixed race Chinese American Christian and has resided in the Bay Area since 2006. He currently works at OneJustice, a statewide legal nonprofit that helps to remove barriers to justice for low-income Californians. Before joining OneJustice, he worked at Asian & Pacific Islander Wellness Center where he coordinated statewide trainings for HIV service providers and helped fight HIV-related stigma in the A&PI community. Stephen graduated from UC Berkeley with a degree in Urban Studies and is originally from Sacramento County. In his free time, he came usually be found playing board games.
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Scott S. Milagro-Fotre
Scott is a user insights strategist at YouTube, studying user behavior in order to provide innovative solutions for product improvement. In his spare time he is the Bay Area leader of the Gayglers, Google's LGBT employee resource group. With the Gayglers, Scott has worked on strengthening the LGBT community within the company, organizing events and speakers, and facilitating corporate collaboration with local and national non-profits (Larkin Street Youth Services, the Trevor Project, the National Center for Lesbian Rights, and the Human Rights Campaign). Scott received a Masters of Public Health from Emory University. After graduation he worked on HIV policy research for the Center for AIDS Prevention Studies at UCSF. While at CAPS, Scott's major projects were based in Namibia (HIV counseling and testing on military bases) and Uganda (Implementing HIV counseling and testing amongst TB patients). Scott also volunteered as an HIV test counselor at Magnet in the Castro. Scott is passionate about cyberbullying prevention, workforce equality, and community organizing. He is originally from Springfield, Illinois.
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Tracy Garza
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Michelle Kim
Michelle is a young professional in the exciting world of technology startups. She works as a Strategic Account Manager at Moovweb, a software company offering close-based platform for mobile site development. Prior to joining Moovweb, she was a consultant at Deloitte where she served as the Regional Programming Lead for the company's LGBT Business Resource Group. She is a proud Cal alumni, where she co-founded Queer Straight Alliance and co-chaired the UC system-wide LGBTQ Steering Committee. She is passionate about queer youth empowerment and activism, and organizing around issues impacting queer youth of color from low income communities. Since her teenage years, she has worked with various queer youth services organizations and was invited to speak at the Amnesty International General Assembly in 2011 about the importance of queer youth activism.
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Paul Klees
Paul Klees is Co-Chair of the Global Advisory Board for the AIDS Clinical Trial Group Network, which is the world’s most extensive and far reaching HIV research and clinical trial network, with numerous research sites across four continents. The advisory board provides an opportunity for affected communities, especially clinical trials participants, to understand the clinical research process, voice concerns regarding specific clinical studies, their development, implementation and outcomes and promote ethical research purposes and practices. He also sits on ACTG’s Community Scientific Subcommittee which supports investigation into the pathogenesis and treatment of HIV. To this end, the CSS strives to ensure that the ACTG scientific priorities reflect the pressing needs of the entire spectrum of people with HIV/AIDS and to protect the interests of research subjects in ACTG studies. Through his participation with ACTG, he seeks to represent the interests of the diverse communities across the globe who are impacted by the HIV epidemic. Paul is also a housing advocate for the AIDS Housing Alliance which has developed a comprehensive suite of housing services that are available to all people with HIV/AIDS and their households in San Francisco and is also the largest employer of people with HIV/AIDS in San Francisco. And he is also the Managing Director of the Guy Writers Theater Company, where he develops plays by local writers, fosters productions and also teaches playwriting workshops. In his spare time he does board and creative consulting with an emphasis on multicultural organizations. He is happily partnered with clothing designer Luis Xeiroto whose portrait of Paul is displayed.
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Alex Lazar
A lifelong Bay Area resident, Alex Lazar is a strong proponent of asset based community development. Alex is an alumni of San Francisco State University and the AmeriCorps program "Public Allies." As a Constituent Services Representative his job is to assist residents of San Francisco navigate problems they are having with Federal Agencies. This year as a member of the LGBT AC, Alex is motivated to identify resources in the community which can help us achieve our common goals.
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Frank Lester
Frank Lester is proud to call San Francisco his home since 1986. He graduated from City College of San Francisco, and received his BA and MSW from San Francisco State University. San Francisco has a sizable Deaf LGBT community. Frank is proud to be a part of it, as a member and an activist. He was one of the earliest Deaf HIV/AIDS Educator from the late 1980's. Today, he continues to be an educator. He as a Peace Corps volunteer served for three years (2006-2009) in the capacity of HIV/AIDS educator in the Deaf community in Africa. Today, he is a high school teacher at California School for the Deaf in Fremont.
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Amos Lim
Amos Lim immigrated from Singapore to the United States in 1999 to be with his husband, Mickey. But this move was not simple. Amos and Mickey encountered first hand the discrimination faced by same-sex binational couples under current US immigration law, that was compounded by DOMA. The struggle to stay in America, and have his marriage recognized, led Amos to activism, first co-founding Out4Immigration http://www.out4immigration.org, and then becoming a proponent of marriage equality. As the Community Outreach Director for the all-volunteer grassroots group, Out4Immigration, Amos has worked both locally and nationally to raise the profile of same-sex binational couples, leading workshops, speaking to the media and teaching other couples to advocate for change to U.S. immigration law and meet with their Congressional representatives to ask for support of the Uniting American Families Act and Reuniting Families Act. Amos was an early supporter of full federal marriage rights, and forged strong alliances for same-sex binational couples with Marriage Equality USA and GetEQUAL. Amos has been instrumental in raising awareness about the unique struggles same-sex binational couples face and bringing that into the larger immigration dialog. In 2007, he organized San Francisco’s Immigrant Rights Summit where LGBT immigration issues were discussed for the first time. He has also been part of the San Francisco City ID Card committee. Amos currently sits on the LGBT Advisory Committee of the San Francisco Human Rights Commission and the City College of San Francisco's Bond Oversight Committee. Amos has an extensive professional background in the corporate sector, with experiences in project management, community organizing, business development and human resources. He currently lives in San Francisco with his husband Mickey and their adorable 5-year-old daughter. .
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Mitch Mayne
Mitch Mayne is an openly gay, active Latter-day Saint (Mormon). He currently serves as the executive secretary in the bishopric (ecclesiastical leadership) of the LDS Church in San Francisco. In addition to the formal duties of his calling, Mitch works to build bridges between the LGBT and Mormon communities, and speaks and writes publicly about his experiences as an openly gay Mormon. He works in corporate communication for a Fortune 100 firm. Mitch lives in San Francisco, CA.
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Bonnie Miluso
Bonnie Miluso has over seven years of experience as an attorney. In her current role at Grotefeld, Hoffmann, Schleiter, Gordon & Ochoa, Bonnie is a litigation attorney focusing on plaintiff’s side products liability and insurance subrogation. Prior to that she was an associate practicing health care litigation. A lifelong gay rights activist and former Board Member of GAYLAW in Washington, D.C., Bonnie was awarded her BA from Northwestern University and received her JD from The George Washington University Law School. In her free time Bonnie enjoys captaining her lesbian pool team, playing ultimate frisbee and taking her SPCA certified dog, Boise Giuseppe, to the VA hospital and senior citizen homes. She lives in the Mission with her partner, Patrece, and their other two dogs, Rufus and Tuch.
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Renata Moreira
Renata Moreira is the Policy and Communications Director of Our Family Coalition, a San Francisco based NGO working to promote the equality and well-being of LGBTQ families since 2002. Prior to joining OFC, Renata served on the Board of the LGBTQ Pride Center of Northern NJ and led public education campaigns on sexual assault/DV prevention, economic justice issues, marriage equality, and ENDA for over a decade. She also served as VP of Community Outreach for Hudson Diversity Action Council, a political action committee working to advance the issues of low income and immigrant families through voter mobilization, political engagement, and research-based advocacy campaigns. She offers pro-bono strategic consultant services to both public organizations and NGOs that are committed to advancing equity and inclusion for women and LGBTQ people here and abroad. Renata has taught sexuality and gender studies courses at NJ City University, Hunter College, and Montclair State University. She holds a cum laude Bachelors of Arts in Political Science and a Masters of Arts in Gender Studies from the City University of New York. Renata lives in San Francisco with her Fiancé Lori and their 60lb pitlabboxer, Mr. Petey. She was born and raised in Brasilia, Brazil, and became a U.S. citizen in 2011.
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Patrick Pablo
Patrick Pablo works for the Japanese Community Youth Council (JCYC), a nonprofit housing a variety of youth leadership development, employment, prevention, and educational programs within San Francisco. Since 2009, he has been a High School Educational Advisor for AACE Educational Talent Search under JCYC, a federal TRIO program that assists low-income, first generation students in their pursuit of postsecondary education. Patrick enjoys working with students of all diverse backgrounds and helping them realize their potential and opportunities available to them. During his undergraduate career at UC Berkeley, Patrick served as the Gender and Sexuality Awareness Coordinator for the Pilipino Academic Student Services, a student run recruitment and retention center from 2007-2008. He facilitated a safe space for queer and queer minded students of color providing the opportunity for discussion, access to LGBT resources, and community building for students to create stronger support networks within the university. In his spare time, Patrick loves trying new restaurants in the Bay Area, keeping physically active both outdoors and the in the gym, and traveling wherever he can find a great deal on Travelzoo.com.
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Angie Perone
Angie Perone is a staff attorney at the National Center for Lesbian Rights, where she oversees the Elder Law Project. Prior to law school, Angie worked with transgender community activists on housing rights and volunteered with several organizations committed to gender and racial justice. While attending law school, Angie advocated on First Amendment issues at the ACLU’s National Legislative Office in Washington D.C. and employment and education equity at the ACLU’s Racial Justice Project, Equal Rights Advocates, Legal Aid Society-Employment Law Center, and Center for WorkLife Law in San Francisco. Angie currently volunteers as a Board Member for the General Assistance Advocacy Project, an attorney at the AIDS Legal Referral Panel and Employment Law Center, and a docent at the San Francisco Botanical Gardens.
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Bianca Polovina
Bianca is a mixed (Assyrian, Armenian, Serbian) first-generation American from greater Los Angeles. Bianca attended UC San Diego, graduating in 2003, and then moved to San Francisco in 2005. From 2008-2011, Bianca studied at Hastings College of the Law, where she served as a teaching assistant for the Legal Research and Writing Program, was a Senior Articles Editor on the Hastings Law Journal, and successfully represented clients in employment and disability benefits matters at the Hastings Civil Justice Clinic. In the summer of 2009, Bianca served as a summer legal intern for the Human Rights Commission's LGBT and HIV Division. Bianca enjoyed her internship at the HRC so much she joined the LGBTAC in 2010. In her down time, Bianca spends her time following the Los Angeles Lakers, tirelessly searching for chelokabob, and doing marathons with her mom.
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Fayaz Rajani
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Zalman Rosenfeld
Zalman Rosenfeld has been a long-time advocate for LGBT rights, from Stonewall to Marriage Equality and beyond. He has been a life-long educator and provided HIV/AIDS Wellness and Prevention Education in San Francisco and in the North Bay Area. He has served on the Board of Directors of Spectrum LGBT Services Center (formerly the Ministry of Light) in Marin County and the Jewish Community Free Clinic in Sonoma County. These days you might spot him at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco, greeting visitors at the Shenson Welcome Center.
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Mark Synder
Mark is the Communications Manager for the Transgender Law Center. He has a passion for utilizing new media and succinct messaging to inspire people to create a world that treats transgender people and their families with dignity and respect. Mark grew up in a house made from an old barn on a mountain in rural Pennsylvania where he enjoyed the serenity of nature and his many rescued farm animals and pets. He currently lives in downtown San Francisco with his partner Wing and their Jack Russel Terrier, Willy. Mark identifies as gender, sexually, and politically queer. He also identifies as “Second Gen,” which for him signifies that he has a gay parent. Mark majored in Marketing Communication at Emerson College in Boston. He brings a wealth of experience working with organizations serving LGBTQ parents, people with LGBTQ parents, and LGBTQ youth. Mark is a dedicated activist for social and economic justice. In 2000 he founded one of the first online hubs for queer activists, QueerToday.com, which has garnered media attention worldwide for sparking creative LGBTQ rights demonstrations. Mark currently serves on the LGBT Advisory Committee of the San Francisco Human Rights Commission.
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Christopher Vasquez
Christopher Vasquez got his start in LGBT activism when he was just 16 years old when he went to the state capitol of Florida to lobby for a non-discrimination and anti-bullying act for state schools that would include sexual orientation and gender identity. His work on this issue and the news that it later garnered helped Christopher earn a spot of Teen People's 2002 list of the "Twenty Teens Who will Change the World" for his work in LGBT political activism. Since then Christopher has gone on the work on LGBT youth and political issues for over a decade, including here in San Francisco, where he is on the board of the Alice B Toklas LGBT Democratic Club (the old LGBT political club in the nation), as well as serving on the local steering committee for the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation and the planning committee for the SF LGBT Center's annual soiree. Christopher first came to San Francisco when he was 17 and spent four days exploring the City solo when he decided he would one day call the SF home, in awe of its openness and open acceptance of its LGBT brothers and sisters. In addition to LGBT activism and politics, Christopher enjoys cycling, specifically for the AIDS LifeCycle fundraiser, as well as nightlife, exploring the City and random, useless trivia knowledge.
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Neo Veavea
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Vaughn Villaverde
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