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Human Rights & Equality Professor of Culture, Advocacy & Leadership (5x) PA State Rep (2x) Out100 @viventhealth @vanderbilt.nyc @natstonewalldems
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#boardgovernance#lovestory#stayweird#vote#counteveryvote#corporategovernance#healthlaw#nonprofit#cle#prismsummit
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🎊🤵🏻♂️🏳️🌈SO MANY THANK YOUS!🏳️🌈🤵🏼♂️🎊Back in the real world after one of the most extraordinary weeks of my life. Last weekend I had the wedding of my dreams with the love of my life, and earlier this week I celebrated another year around the sun.
I have a mountain of thank-yous and messages to send, and I will, but for now I just want to pause to say how grateful I am. To our families, our friends, our classmates, our teammates, and every single person who reached out with love: thank you. Alex and I are still floating, and your kindness has carried us even higher.
Now it is time to return to the work, to the fight, and to the joy of building community with all of you.❤️
18 Sep 2025
HE SAID YES! Tonight on the beach I asked Alex if he’d be my husband and he said yes! Our friends have been in on it awhile now and a few weeks ago I asked his parents before I flew out to Hong Kong if I had their permission. Luckily, just like my parents, they were excited and supportive. I’m so stupidly grateful to have this amazing man in my life and now it’ll be forever. #LoveStory
28 Oct 2023
Despite planning a full wedding for Fall 2025, Brian and I decided to make it official on December 21st! While our big celebration with friends and family is still happening, we felt it was important to have our love legally recognized now as a smart step for our future. With marriage equality and LGBTQ+ rights under attack, being legally married before the inauguration felt like the safest choice for us.
This backdrop could have made the day feel solemn, but we chose joy instead. In 10-degree snowy Boston, our incredible parents ~legally witnessed~ and one of our best friends officiated, a beautiful, intimate ceremony. I’m so grateful for those who fought to give us the opportunity to make official what we’ve known in our hearts for years, and to be surrounded by the ones we love most.
Everyone that knows me knows that I love a silver lining and that I’m not one for confrontation, but let’s be clear: we wouldn’t have felt the urgency to do this now if we weren’t queer or facing this political climate. So, while we welcome your congratulations, we also challenge everyone to ensure your actions match those words of support.
On that note, long post ends now — love ya, @briansimspa !
04 Jan 2025
They said choose a lane. We took the whole damn highway! #StayWeird
05 Nov 2026
🗳️🇺🇸VOTE, VOTE, VOTE!🇺🇸🗳️Today is Election Day. Vote like everything depends on it, because so much of it does.
We have a president who treats the Constitution like a suggestion and the rule of law like an obstacle. He’s made literal Billions while families like yours and mine are being targeted. Rights we fought for are being rolled back. Neighbors are terrified. None of this is normal, and we don’t have to accept it.
The way we change it is simple. We show up. Every House seat is on the ballot, and so are a third of the Senate seats and governorships across the country.
Bring a friend, a parent, a neighbor. Stay in line. Your vote is how we say hateful politics ends here.
Find your polling place, check the hours, and go. Make sure every vote is counted, including YOURS!Let’s restore the rule of law and start the hard work of protecting everyone’s freedom, together.
#Vote #CountEveryVote
03 Nov 2026
🏥📉PRIVATE EQUITY, HOSPITAL BOARDS, AND WHAT EVERY LAWYER & BOARD MEMBER SHOULD KNOW👩🏾⚖️🏥: I’ve served on Boards for nearly two decades. The most important thing I’ve learned is that a director is only as good as the information in front of them.
I learned that the hard way. I was a director of Hahnemann University Hospital in Philadelphia when it was bought by a private equity backed owner in 2018 and closed in 2019. Today I serve on the board of Vivent Health, where clear, regular, verifiable financial reporting is simply how we work. The difference between those two boardrooms is the difference between a board that governs and a board that’s governed.
On November 18, I’m teaching a CLE for the Connecticut Bar Association on exactly that: how a hospital director’s fiduciary duty changes with who owns the hospital, what happened at Hahnemann and Crozer Health, and how lawmakers are responding, with both sides of the debate.
Two Boardrooms: What Private Equity Taught Me About Governing a Hospital
Wednesday, November 18 | 12:00 p.m. ET | Webinar
1.0 CT CLE credit | 1.0 NY CLE credit
Registration here: https://tinyurl.com/nhz3v885 (and in my profile)
#BoardGovernance #CorporateGovernance #HealthLaw #Nonprofit #CLE
27 Oct 2026
🏳️🌈📊WHERE THE BOARDROOM MEETS THE MOVEMENT📈🏳️⚧️: Yesterday I was at the 4th Annual PRISM: The Association of LGBTQ+ Corporate Directors Summit in Manhattan as a guest of my friend Fabrice Houdart, PRISM’s Executive Director and Founder. Grant Thornton (US) hosted. The room was full of LGBTQ+ corporate directors, executives and advocates, and I spent half the day hugging friends and colleagues I hadn’t seen in far too long.
Board Chair Michael C. Camuñez opened with the State of the Field, and one number stayed with me. Openly LGBTQ+ directors now hold 45 Fortune 500 board seats, down from 50 in 2024. That’s the first decline since PRISM started tracking in 2022, and only one genuinely new openly LGBTQ+ director has joined that group since 2024.
I spent five terms in one of America’s oldest legislatures, and I learned there that representation doesn’t hold steady by default. You defend it or you lose it. Boardrooms work the same way. These seats are where decisions get made about hiring, benefits, philanthropy and whether a company stands firm or folds when the political winds shift. When they shrink, the impact reaches far beyond the boardroom.
It was also a joy to spend time with Stacy Lentz of The Stonewall Inn and Stonewall Inn Gives Back Initiative, fresh off making this year’s Out100 (so well deserved!), and with Matthew Şenız-Cheng from Outright International. The people doing this work across every sector, from Christopher Street to the boardroom to the global stage, keep me going.
The work continues. See you all soon.
#PRISMSummit #BoardGovernance #LGBTQ #Leadership #Equality
27 Oct 2026
🏛️👨🏻🏫CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY🏳️🌈🏛️Today I have the honor of spending the day at Carnegie Mellon University.
CMU brought me in for four conversations across campus. At the Heinz College, one of the country’s top-ranked schools of public policy, I’m speaking on Policy Analysis & Action in the Age of AI: how legislative decisions actually get made, and what AI is doing to policy and advocacy work. This evening I’m giving the campus-wide talk, At the Intersection of Leadership & Allyship, on what it takes to show up for people even when you don’t know how. In between, a session with the Heinz Fellows and an open hour for any student who cares about LGBTQ+ rights and wants to know where to start.
I’ve had the privilege of speaking at more than 150 colleges and universities, and the days that pair serious policy work with real conversations about leadership and allyship are the ones I value most.
Thank you to Heinz College, CMQ+, Out&Allied at Tepper, and the Heinz Student Experience and Engagement Office for the invitation. The lunch session is full. The evening is open to the whole campus.
22 Oct 2026
This is happening Saturday!
Join us @thestonewallinn at 4 p.m. for an afternoon of queer resistance AND joy. The very funny Charlie Girard is hosting and --- drumroll --- Autumn Nicholas is performing!
More info here! https://events.humanitix.com/democracy-needs-queers-an-afternoon-of-queer-joy-resistance-and-action
Thank you @lisacongdon for the graphic and @themyntyexperience for the poster design! ❤️
21 Oct 2026
🏳️🌈🏥FINANCING LGBTQ+ HEALTH SYSTEMS🚑🏳️⚧️: On October 30, I’ll be moderating “Healthcare Delivery and Insurance Markets: Financing LGBTQ+ Health Systems” at the Global Inclusive Finance Forum 2026, at the Deutsche Bank Center in New York.
LGBTQ+ health is its own market, with its own needs, costs and opportunities. That’s a reality I’ve seen from both sides of the table. In the Pennsylvania House of Representatives I chaired the Human Services Subcommittee on Mental Health and served on the Health and Finance Committees. Today I serve on the board of Vivent Health, a $330 million nonprofit health system that has spent four decades delivering integrated HIV care, with medical, dental, behavioral health and pharmacy under one roof, across 10 health centers in six states.
I’m looking forward to digging into what it will take from investors, industry and policymakers to unlock this market, alongside Kellan E. Baker, Jessica Halem, and Dr. Edith Perez.
Thank you to Koppa - The LGBTI+ Economic Power Lab, and to Fabrice Houdart for bringing together investors, funders and entrepreneurs for two days on the capital, markets and infrastructure of the LGBTI+ economy.
Register here and in my bio: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfpXT2lsRTPP3pWfTYApny8ej-H4R0xzmGw6WXTxNwc2nTzOw/viewform
#InclusiveFinance #LGBTIEconomy #ImpactInvesting #HealthEquity
19 Oct 2026
🏳️🌈🏈HOW TO WIN A CULTURE WAR🏛️🏳️🌈: For ten years, I served in one of America’s oldest legislatures as the first openly LGBTQ+ person ever elected to it. Almost every win there was preceded by a cultural one. People didn’t change their votes until a TV character, an athlete, or a song had already changed their minds.
My friend Lisa Stulberg spent 14 years interviewing 170 of the people behind those moments, including Eric McCormack, Lea DeLaria, and Greg Louganis. Her new book lays out the playbook they used, and right now, with our community under real political attack, we need it.
I’m joining Lisa in conversation for her NYC launch next Wednesday, October 21, at 7 PM at @bgsqd , Manhattan’s queer bookstore inside the LGBT Center. Pre-order your copy and stay for the signing.
RSVP at the link in my bio.
16 Oct 2026
🌆NEW YORK IS NEXT🌆 I was born at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Washington, D.C. to Army Officer parents. Their parents were military too. I grew up knowing what service asks of people and their families, and what this country owes them in return.
Right now, transgender servicemembers are being pushed out of the military under the current ban, and too many are landing with nothing. No continuity of care, no housing plan, no clear path to a job.
California just changed that. AB 1775 is now law, creating state-level housing, employment, and transition support for servicemembers discharged under the ban. Out in National Security helped build the bipartisan coalition that got it done.
Now Out In National Security and Equality New York are working with partners in Albany to build the New York version, and I’m proud to be on the host committee alongside leaders like Kevin Jennings, Christine Quinn, and Brad Hoylman-Sigal.
We’re gathering tomorrow night, Thursday, October 15, at 6 PM at The San Remo. If you care about LGBTQ+ veterans, about what states can do when Washington won’t, or about New York leading, I want you in that room. Bring someone with you.
Tickets and details: https://givebutter.com/protect-now-nyc (and in my bio)
#LGBTQVeterans #NewYorkIsNext #OutInNationalSecurity
14 Oct 2026
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