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Prior to becoming Executive Director, Maria served as OutRight’s deputy executive director leading the work of the development and communications teams. In this position, they oversaw a period of extraordinary growth in visibility, diversification and increase in funding, in addition to launching groundbreaking initiatives, such as OutRight’s COVID-19 Global LGBTIQ Emergency Fund and pioneering engagement with international businesses.
Prior to coming to OutRight Maria served as Executive Director of RFSL, Sweden’s largest LGBTIQ organization. While in this position Maria established RFSL's international program, played a key role in ensuring that the human rights of LGBTIQ people become ingrained in the Swedish government's agenda for development and foreign affairs, advocated for marriage equality (achieved in 2009) and the abolishment of forced sterilization of trans people as a requirement for legal gender recognition (outlawed in 2013).
Maria has conducted leadership trainings for hundreds of LGBTIQ activists on topics including strength-based coaching and appreciative inquiry. They regularly provide expert opinions to governments, foundations, UN agencies, and corporations.
Maria (they/she) is frequently quoted by the media, including by outlets like Time magazine and Thomson Reuters.
Chandler Bazemore (he/him) is the Senior Development Manager at OutRight Action International, based in New York. He joined OutRight Action International in 2019 to lead fundraising efforts in New York City. Chandler brings nearly 20 years of fundraising and development experience from different areas, including at-risk LGBT youth services, education enrichment, social justice, community organizing and environmental protection. He believes development and fundraising at its core is about relationship building and sharing the stories of the people and communities impacted by our work. Chandler has a passion for social justice, supportive services and organizations committed to improving people’s lives. Chandler is motivated and inspired by the creation of a world where all people are respected, supported and encouraged to live their true and authentic selves without reprimand, retaliation and interference. A world where access to opportunity and resources are shared freely by all and everyone has the opportunity to live up to their full potential.
Amie Bishop (she/her) is the Senior Research Advisor for OutRight Action International, based in Seattle. She is the author of its recent reports, Vulnerability Amplified: The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on LGBTIQ People published in May 2020, and Harmful Treatment: The Global Reach of So-Called Conversion Therapy, published in August 2019. She previously served on OutRight’s Board of Directors from 2008 to 2017.
Amie is a human rights advocate and global health leader with professional experience in more than 20 countries. Between 1989 and 2014 she worked for PATH, a non-profit global health organization where her work spanned a variety of leadership and technical roles in the areas of TB, HIV, and women’s health. Amie is also an Adjunct Clinical Instructor at the University of Washington’s Department of Global Health and the Jackson School of International Studies. Amie is an elected member of the Advisory Committee of Seattle’s Women in Global Health initiative and is on the board of Rise Beyond the Reef, a community empowerment organization in Fiji. Amie holds Master’s Degrees in Social Work and Public Health from Columbia University.
Damon Clyde (he/him) is the Senior Development Officer for Institutional Giving at OutRight Action International, based in New York. He came to OutRight from the British Council, where he developed partnerships with donors based in the United States to support the Council’s international programs on social entrepreneurship, women’s and girls’ empowerment, youth civic engagement and LGBTIQ issues. Prior to that Damon worked at the EastWest Institute, a global nonprofit promoting peace and security. Damon started his international career as a U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer in Kyrgyzstan. While in the region, he also served as a consultant for the Asian Development Bank and UNHCR.
Damon holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, and a Master of International Affairs degree from Columbia University.
Elise Colomer-Cheadle (she/her) is Director of Development at OutRight Action International, based in Charlotte, North Carolina. In her role, Elise is a member of the Senior Management Team, manages a team of five, and oversees the organization’s institutional fundraising, corporate partnerships, individual donor portfolios, planned giving program and development operations.
Elise has over 20 years experience working in the nonprofit industry connecting businesses to causes. Her past roles include Senior Director of Development at SAGE, overseeing institutional, special events and individual giving; Associate Director & Director of Latin America Programs at the New York City Bar Association’s Cyrus R. Vance Center for International Justice; and Business and Partnerships Officer at the United Nations Office for Project Services.
Born and raised in Puerto Rico, Elise is bilingual in English and Spanish. She holds a Master of Science in Administration of International Organizations from Columbia University School of Social Work, and a Bachelor of Arts in International Relations from Tufts University. She lives with her wife Diane and three dogs, and her interests include baking and running.
Ging Cristobal (she/her) is the Project Coordinator for Asia and the Pacific Islands at OutRight Action International, based in the Philippines. Ging Cristobal joined OutRight in 2008, bringing with her over 20 years of lesbian feminist activism. Ging has been a technical advisor of UNDP Being’s Asia regional project LGBT in Asia, she is one of the co-founders of the ASEAN SOGIE Caucus, a coalition of LGBTIQ groups in Southeast Asia, former vice-chairperson of the Board of Amnesty International – Philippines, and one of the founders of the Lesbian Advocates Philippines (LeAP!), Inc. She also founded the Stop the Discrimination (STD) Coalition, a multisectoral network pushing forthe enactment of the comprehensive anti-discrimination bill. Ging has lobbied for laws to protect LGBT rights as one of the members and founders of the Lesbian and Gay Legislative Advocacy Network (LAGABLAB), including the pending anti-discrimination law.
She is also a Buddhist by philosophy, 80’s music addict, dog lover, environmentalist, a videoke junkie, a proud fashion wreck.
Alberto de Belaunde (he/him) is the Program Adviser - Global Advocacy at OutRight. He is a lawyer with a master's degree in environmental management and postgraduate studies in public policy. He was the second openly gay congressman in the history of Peru. In 2019, he was awarded the Victory Institute Tammy Baldwin Breakthrough Award for his work on behalf of the LGBT+ community. In 2021 he was part of the Yale World Fellowship. He has published two books, one of them about openly LGBTQ+ authorities in Latin America.
Fox Deatry (he/they/māhū) is the Director of Communications and Marketing at OutRight Action International. In his role, Fox oversees communication, brand development, media and talent relations, creative and design, digital content gathering and publishing initiatives. Prior to joining OutRight, Fox led the communications and marketing departments for Al Jazeera Media Network, Sea Shepherd, Livestrong.com, Movember USA and The Children's Inn at National Institutes of Health. He played an integral and pivotal role during the launch of Al Jazeera America and AJ+, and the Network’s award-winning #JournalismIsNotACrime global campaign.
Fox has also worked in the entertainment industry, serving as a publicity executive for Kyzn Media, which had a first look deal with Fox 21, FX’s scripted and unscripted incubator. He is a board advisor and member of the Society of LGBT Entertainment Critics, home to 300 global entertainment journalists who write on television and film for reputable media outlets in the U.S., Canada, Australia and the U.K. Fox is a graduate of The George Washington University where he holds a Masters degree in Political Management. He is proud of his Pacific Islander roots.
Cäcille Ealy (she/her) is the Development Associate for Individual Giving at OutRight Action International, based in New York. She joined the Outright team with five years of professional writing experience. A graduate of Parsons The New School for Design in New York City, she earned a Bachelor of Business Administration with a minor in writing. While still a student Cäcille write social justice articles for the LGBTQ lifestyle magazine, Kraven. After graduating, she began her career as a contributing food/wellness writer for New York Spirit Magazine and a blog/copywriter for Kanler Construction.
Originally from a small town in Indiana, she knows firsthand how difficult it can be growing up “different”. Because of that, she will forever be a fighter for a persons right’s and a champion for anyone in need.
Nokukhanya (Khanyo) Farisè (she/her) is OutRight's African Advocacy Officer. She is a South African international human rights lawyer focused on equality, non-discrimination and access to justice in Africa. Khanyo has over 10 years’ experience working in regional and international organisations in a range of countries in Africa and Europe advancing the rule of law and human rights.
Prior to joining Outright, Khanyo worked as a Legal adviser at the International Commission of Jurists. Prior to that she was also a Senior Lawyer at The Initiative for Strategic Litigation in Africa, a Legal Associate at the African Union Commission in Ethiopia, a Research Associate at the International Development Law Organisation in Rome and in The Hague, and a corporate lawyer at Bowmans, a premier law firm in South Africa.
She holds an LLB from Nelson Mandela University, South Africa, an LLM from the Trinity College Dublin, Ireland and an LLM from Loyola University Chicago USA. Khanyo is committed to making the world one where everyone enjoys the same rights: to equality, non-discrimination and access to justice.
Lester (he/him) is OutRight's Senior Fellow - Emergency Research. He is a journalist and photographer who has reported in more than 40 countries. Lester began his career at Politico, where he covered the politics and policies of health care in Congress, the White House, and the Supreme Court. In 2013, he joined BuzzFeed News as its first international correspondent, pioneering a first-of-its-kind international LGBTQ rights beat.
Among other topics, Lester has covered the 2014 Sochi Olympics and Russia's "gay propaganda" law; discovered how Steve Bannon was building ties to senior figures in the Vatican; wrote about Iraqi activists rescuing LGBTIQ people from ISIS; and exposed the local politics behind anti-LGBTIQ crackdowns globally, from Uganda to Indonesia to Egypt. Lester was named the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association’s Journalist of the Year in 2015 and received a GLAAD media award in 2016. In 2020, Lester was named a Knight-Wallace Reporting Fellow at the University of Michigan.
Neela Ghoshal (any pronouns) is OutRight's Senior Director of Law, Policy & Research, based in Washington DC. She comes to OutRight from Human Rights Watch, where she served as Associate LGBT Rights Director, leading global initiatives on LGBTIQ rights and conducting research and advocacy on rights violations related to sexual orientation and gender identity around the world. Prior to joining the LGBT Rights Program, she was a researcher in the Africa Division at Human Rights Watch, based in Burundi and in Kenya, where she covered political repression, police abuse, justice sector reform, and transitional justice in East Africa. Neela previously worked with the Network in Solidarity with the People of Guatemala, the Bronx Defenders, and the New York City public schools.
Neela holds a bachelor's in social justice studies from the University of Michigan and a master's in international relations from Yale University, and speaks English, Spanish, French and Kiswahili. She enjoys growing vegetables, cooking, and practicing and writing about feminist parenting.
Hala (she/her) is the Digital Communication Manager at OutRight Action International, based in New York. Prior to her work in the nonprofit world, Hala worked for a digital agency in both Beirut and Dubai, where she led different digital campaigns in the MENA region. Her illustrations have been published in Autostraddle, The Seventh Wave, and the Gulf Center for Human Rights and more, and she often contributes to projects grounded in art activism.
Originally from Lebanon, Hala has found a home in New York and enjoys the local drag scene that has inspired a lot of her creative work. When she's not working, she's tinkering in the kitchen and discovering new ways to cook mushrooms.
Katie Hultquist (she/her) is Director of Leadership Giving of OutRight Action International and is based in Seattle. With a career in the nonprofit sector spanning more than 20 years, Katie brings a deep understanding of nonprofit management and fundraising to OutRight. Prior to coming to OutRight, Katie served for eight years as the Northwest Regional Director at NPH USA (Nuestros Pequeños Hermanos), where she led the staff and Board in development efforts to support programs for vulnerable children in Latin America and the Caribbean. Katie also spent nine years as the Executive Director of Passages Northwest, a Seattle non-profit dedicated to building courage and leadership in girls through the outdoors and the arts. While based in Washington, DC Katie was the Assistant Development Director for the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice and the Director of Partnerships and Outreach for Ashoka’s Youth Venture.
Katie holds a Masters degree in Nonprofit Leadership from Seattle University and a B.A. in International Studies from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Originally from San Francisco, Katie lives in Seattle with her wife and three children.
Paul Jansen (he/him) is the Senior Director of Global Programs & Grantmaking at Outright Action International. He joined OutRight in 2017 after working as an International Consultant on organisational and strategic reviews for organizations and networks working on LGBTIQ issues, HIV, and other topics. Before starting his consultancy company, he was the Program Director for Salzburg Global Seminar in the areas of education, nature and sustainability issues. He has also worked as organisational sustainability advisor in the Asia Pacific Coalition on Male Sexual Health, in Bangkok, Thailand. Prior to this, he was the country director of the Hivos office in Johannesburg, South Africa. He has been working in international development since 1998 in various development organisations, like Voluntary Service Overseas, after a career in the tourism industry for the Dutch Tourism Board in Cologne, Germany, and the Provincial Tourist Board in Utrecht, Netherlands.
Originally from the Netherlands, Paul holds a Master’s degree in Development Studies from Utrecht University and a Bachelor’s degree in marketing management for the hospitality and tourism industry from the Maastricht Hoge Hotelschool.
Tenesha Myrie (she/her) is Outright’s Caribbean Advocacy Officer based in Jamaica. Tenesha is a human rights lawyer with over ten years’ experience working on issues concerned with gender equality, LGBTIQ rights protection, HIV and AIDS, gender-based violence, child rights, and sexual and reproductive health and rights. Her work centers on legal and policy reform with a focus on strengthening legal protection and improving access to services for groups in a position of vulnerability. In this regard, she has provided expert opinion to the Government of Jamaica, has consulted for UN Women, UNDP, USAID, Child Rights International Network (CRIN), as well as regional and local NGOs such as Caribbean Vulnerable Communities Coalition, Jamaica AIDS Support for Life, Jamaicans for Justice, and others. She has also worked with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in Washington D.C. as a legal fellow. She is a former corporate and property lawyer.
Tenesha holds a Master of Public Policy from the University of Oxford and has been recognized as a Researcher for Development by the University of West Indies.
Rikki Nathanson (she/her) comes with a wealth of experience in the corporate business management and non-profit sectors, in excess of 20 years. With her comes extensive knowledge in finance, organizational development and movement building. Before joining OutRight, Rikki worked for 2 years in the Executive Management Team of Casa Ruby in Washington DC in several capacities. She ended her tenure as Director of Housing Programs. She also served on OutRight’s board of directors from October 2019, recently ending her term as Chair of the Finance Committee. An immigrant, she moved to the USA from Zimbabwe for her own safety after challenging, and subsequently beating, the police for her unlawful arrest after using a female restroom. The judgement handed down in her ground-breaking civil suit against the government of Zimbabwe has positively changed the legal landscape for trans and gender diverse persons not only in that country, but further afield. Whilst in her native country, she formed and successfully registered the first trans-specific and trans-led organization. She went on to be instrumental in the formation of the Southern Africa Trans Forum and vigorously continues her global trans activism in her affiliation to several trans organizations and movements globally.
Rikki holds a qualification with the Institute of Chartered Secretaries & Administrators of Zimbabwe.
Ohotuowo Ogbeche (she/her) is OutRight's Global Researcher based in Nigeria. She is a writer, lawyer, researcher, feminist, and LGBTIQ rights advocate. She is experienced in raising awareness about feminist issues and formulating ideas to promote gender equality. Ohotuowo writes on feminism, sexual minority rights and social issues. Before joining OutRight, she worked with The Initiative for Equal Rights, Nigeria (TIERs) as the Director of Research and Knowledge Management. At TIERs, Ohotuowo's work centered around conceptualizing research on sexual and gender minority issues, discriminatory laws, policies, and social norms, to feed into policy development, increased social acceptance, advocacy and training efforts. She strongly believes in and advocates for the liberation of all from the patriarchy.
Hazel (they/them) is a Content Creator in the Communications Department at OutrRight Action International. They have a degree in Peace & Conflict Studies, with a concentration in Queer Media from Pitzer College. Formerly a communications intern at OutRight, they love working with digital media and are especially interested in Queer storytelling, with its potential to create deep social change. Originally from San Francisco, they recently moved to New York, and are currently in the midst of finding the best cup of coffee in Crown Heights. In their spare time, Hazel enjoys live music and exploring the Queer scene in NY.
Andrew (he, they) is Senior Advisor, Inclusive Development, based in Los Angeles. His work focuses on ensuring LGBTIQ people are included in international development programs, with the aim of improving development outcomes of LGBTIQ populations. Previously he served as the International Program Director at the Williams Institute, an LGBT research center. He directed the SOGI and international human rights programs at the Wellspring Philanthropic Fund, led the Human Rights Funders Network, and co-chaired the Global Philanthropy Project.
After graduating from George Washington University Law School, Park worked as a trial attorney and an Administrative Judge at the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Subsequently, he founded and directed the Center for Civil Rights, providing legal and advocacy services to LGBT people in Pennsylvania.
He has served as a consultant to UN bodies (OHCHR, UNDP), the World Bank, ILGA World, Human Rights Watch, and RFSL. He taught law at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of California Los Angeles where he also taught international development studies. He was an organizer of the Yogyakarta Principles process, the global response coordinator for the Ugandan Civil Society Coalition on Human Rights, and has authored books and articles published in academic journals.
Laura Piazza (she/her) is OutRight's Senior Program Manager, LBQ Connect Project. She's originally from Sicily and she's based in Brussels. Before joining OutRight, for almost 7 years Laura was the Senior Program Officer at ILGA-Europe, the umbrella organisation of LGBTI groups and associations in Europe and Central Asia, where she managed large programmes on campaigning, communications and socio-economic inequalities. She also coordinated the organizational learning process on intersectionality as well as a multiyear program on value-based messaging, and various initiatives to support activists dealing with anti-gender attacks.
Prior to joining ILGA-Europe, Laura worked in academia, she was a policy officer at the European Commission, and head of public affairs for a firm specialized in campaigns for the not-for-profit sector.
Laura holds a bachelors in international relations from the University of Turin, an LLM in International and European Law from the University of Amsterdam, and a PhD in International Law and Economics from Bocconi University, Milan. She speaks English, Spanish, French and Italian. In her spare time she enjoys reading, riding her green bike and watching movies with her 4 children.
Grace Poore (she/her) is the Regional Program Coordinator for Asia at OutRight Action International since 2007. She manages regional partnership projects for LGBT access to justice, rights to fundamental freedoms, and protections from domestic violence and family violence. She coordinates the Asia Regional Network on SOGIE and Gender Based Violence (GBV), comprising LGBTI advocates and GBV expertise in Asia. She is currently heading OutRight’s project on the impacts of ageism on LGBTIQ older adults in Asia and strategies to promote rights of LGBTIQ older people and establish protections from old age discrimination. She previously worked for 9½ years in the U.S. movement to stop domestic violence. Publications include Through The Lens, a report on violence against lesbians, bisexual women and transgender people in Japan, Malaysia, Pakistan, Philippines and Sri Lanka, Creeping Criminalization, a report on curtailment of LGBT and women’s rights in Indonesia, both of which she edited, published by OutRight, and Shattered Lives, a report on domestic violence homicides in Asian families in the U.S., which she researched and co-authored, published by Asian Pacific Institute on GBV. Her documentary films on the intersectionality of domestic violence and incestuous child sexual abuse in South Asian communities have been viewed in 18 countries. Grace holds a Master’s degree from Syracuse University. She is from Malaysia and based in Maryland.
June Raymond (they/them) is the Operations Assistant with OutRight Action International, based in New York. They join the OutRight team with four years of Media Tech support experience. June graduated from Wheaton College, in Norton MA with a Bachelors in International Relations with a concentration in Asia. While in school they were an active member of Student Government and helped introduce media technology to improve accessibility.
Born in the Republic of Korea, and adopted and raised in the United States, June comes from a strongly intersectional background and will always be there to fight for the human rights of all. When not working, they enjoy playing music, playing Dungeons and Dragons, and experimenting with dishes in the kitchen.
Meg Rosensweet (she/her) is the Executive Assistant for OutRight Action International based in New York. She found OutRight after working in the nonprofit world with the mental health population. Meg attended college at SUNY Purchase and received her bachelor’s degree in Media Theory, Production, and Writing, and also had a large focus in queer theory. While in school she was involved in student government where she was an advocate for feminist and LGBTIQ causes as well as mental health care. Since graduating Meg has also worked as a teacher, and creatively as a scriptwriter and production manager. Meg is also passionate about stand-up comedy and drag performance and has used these mediums as their own forms of activism.
Faith Sadicon (they/them) is OutRight's Program Officer, Asia and Pacific, based in the Philippines. They are a a queer activist and lawyer with extensive experience in legal and policy work, and campaigning and organizing for various social movements. They co-founded Camp Queer, a local queer organization creating safe and nurturing spaces for queer people, working in solidarity with other marginalized groups. Prior to engaging in queer activism, they were part of the youth and migrant worker movements in the Philippines. They also worked for Sandiganbayan, the Special Anti-Graft Court of the Philippines where they joined the Committee on Gender Responsiveness that proposes and implements policies and programs related to gender equality and justice.
Faith is also a fur parent to Estha, the book-munching dog.
Jonta Saragih (he/him) is OutRight's Indonesia Program Officer based in Indonesia. He started his activism at Hivos Jakarta in 2013 working on HIV advocacy and capacity strengthening activities of trans and MSM (men who have sex with men) organizations in Southeast Asia. Later he worked on a project striving to change public perceptions of LGBTIQ people by engaging and influencing religious leaders and sensitizing mainstream media outlets in Indonesia. Together with queer identified lawyers he has also worked to ensure legal assistance for LGBTIQ people who have experienced violence or discrimination.
Jonta has a Master's degree in Development and Gender, and in his spare time enjoys cooking and spending time with friends.
Andrew Schlager (he/him) is Development and Communications Assistant at OutRight Action International, based in New York City. In this role, he supports a variety of functions including corporate engagement and fundraising administration, research, external communications, and content creation and review. For the past five years, Andrew has been involved in New York- based LGBTIQ advocacy, political mobilization, and social impact. He was introduced to OutRight Action International originally as an intern with the development team, before transitioning to a permanent role with the organization in 2021.
Andrew earned his Bachelor of Politics with minors in Sociology, French, and Peace and Conflict Studies at New York University. He is originally from Lancaster, Pennsylvania and is a passionate traveler and French language enthusiast.
Leah Thompson (she/her) is OutRight’s Caribbean Advocacy Officer based in Trinidad and Tobago. Leah is a lawyer, a graduate of the University of the West Indies, who worked as a trial lawyer with the Solicitor General’s Department of Trinidad and Tobago before entering the non-profit sector.
Leah has worked in a number of roles and projects focusing on gender equality, ending gender-based violence, and promoting and protecting the rights of LGBTIQ people. She has consulted with UN Women, UNDP, the OAS, Caribbean Vulnerable Communities, Jamaicans for Justice, the Coalition Against Domestic Violence (TT) and the Trinidad and Tobago Community of Positive Women.
As project coordinator of the Sexual Culture of Justice project, a collaboration among all registered LBGTIQ organizations in Trinidad and Tobago, Leah’s work focused on reducing gender-based violence and preventing LGBTIQ discrimination through coalition building, community action and legislative reform. During that time she was part of the press team contributing to public discourse in support of the repeal of discriminatory anti-LGBTIQ laws in Trinidad and Tobago.
Leah loves plants, reading, and all things Star Trek.
Luiza Drummond Veado (she/her) is OutRight's Senior Program Officer, UN Program based in New York. She is a Brazilian attorney with an International Human Rights Law LLM from the University of Essex. She worked at the Rapporteurship on Rights of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Persons of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights for almost two years, where she developed thematic reports and worked on regional leading cases on LGBTI rights. Prior to this, she was a member of the Human Rights Clinic at the University of Essex and has worked at the Inter-American Court on Human Rights, the Center for Justice and International Law and the Minas Gerais State Human Rights Council and its Truth Commission. Luiza has also published several academic articles on sexual orientation, gender identity and sex characteristics; trained more than one hundred activists and government officials on international and regional non-discrimination standards, with a focus on LGBTI rights; and has coordinated an award-winning video campaign on violence against LGBTI persons in the Americas.
Yvonne Wamari (she/her) is the Africa Program Officer at OutRight Action International, based in Kenya. Yvonne joined OutRight in 2019. She is a human rights defender from Nairobi, Kenya with nine years’ experience in advocacy, research and security management. She has worked with the Kenyan Section of the International Commission of Jurists and the Africa Centre for Open Governance (Kenyans for Peace with Truth and Justice). For the past six years Yvonne worked for National Coalition of Human Rights Defenders - Kenya as the Programme Officer- Advocacy, with a particular focus on human rights defenders. Yvonne is also a trained trainer, and has carried out various trainings to human rights defenders,journalists and others across Kenya on monitoring and documentation; advocacy strategies and physical and digital security management. She has worked closely with the LGBTIQ+ community and is part of the advocacy and legal strategy team in the campaign to repeal sections 162 and 165 of the Penal Code of Kenya.
Yvonne is an Advocate of the High Court of Kenya currently pursuing her Master’s degree in Human Rights from the University of Nairobi.
Kevin Wanzor (he/him) is the Head of Operations at OutRight Action International, based in New York. Before joining Outright in November 2017, Kevin Wanzor worked in college access and student advocacy, on a team committed to teaching a shift from passive and impersonal communication to active, personal, agency and fluency-focused ways of expression. As Director of Operations/Chief of Staff, as well as a teacher, Kevin worked to support professionals, teams, jobseekers and students to tell better stories and to be their strongest advocates. Previously, he worked in global health PR, researching and assessing social and epidemiological studies related to HIV/AIDS, malaria and other infectious diseases.
Kevin is as comfortable working in the office as he is performing on stage, where he spent his early career. His passion for working with marginalized populations and advocating for equality and parity is matched only by his passion for music and the performing arts. He has collaborated with several organizations to create an acting and singing program for foster care LGBT teens. He is an award-winning lyricist and playwright, and spent a number of years traveling the country as a performer. He is an alumnus of Syracuse University and the prestigious BMI Writing Program.
Meet Bob. Bob is the cofounder of “Unicorns For Humanity” and a proud member of the LGBTQI community. If it were up to him the world would be pink and covered with glitters. He’s very sweet and a huge supporter of OutRight Action International. So much, he even agreed to be their mascot. Some say, he’s the one making marriage equality in Belgium possible by persuading the political leaders with his glitter cookies and pancakes with strawberry jam. Learn about how Bob became our mascot.
