About Us

Ryan graduated from Harvard in 2007 with a joint concentration in Government and Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality. As an undergraduate, Ryan was a co-chair of the BGLTSA, co-coordinator of the Resource Center and member of the Trans Task Force (TTF). He received his M.Phil from Oxford University, and completed his D.Phil fieldwork on transnational LGBT advocacy as the Scott Hitt Research Fellow at the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC). His work on LGBT movements in Southern Africa and the Philippines has been published in The Journal of Southern African Studies, The Journal of Human Rights and InterAlia, and is forthcoming in GLQ and The Journal of Human Development and Capabilities. With Sam Cook, he is the co-editor of Nowhere to Turn: Blackmail and Extortion of LGBT People in Sub-Saharan Africa. He is currently at Yale Law School pursuing a JD.

Nat was elected to the HGLC Board in 2006.   He served in the US Navy for 3 years, including 16 months in Vietnam, following graduation from college.  He has worked as a manager at Massachusetts General Hospital, from 1976 to 1987, and, since then, in the MassHealth (Medicaid) health insurance program in the Massachusetts state government.  He has been an active alumnus of Phillips Exeter Academy, in New Hampshire, as an advocate for gays and lesbians in that community.  He is also a member of the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network (SLDN), which successfully campaigned to repeal “don’t ask, don’t tell”.

Richard Kelley, a native Californian, graduated from Harvard in 2010 with a degree in Folklore and Mythology. His thesis work, entitled Reconciling Stories: Coming Out, Oral Narratives and Negotiating Identity, focused on the stories of individuals from religious backgrounds coming out and the similarities and differences within. During his college years, Richard was actively involved in a variety of LGBT activities, including volunteering at GLAD and serving as a peer counselor for CONTACT. After spending a year working on educational programming and empowerment in Mamelodi, South Africa, Richard now works and resides in Washington, DC, still working in education.

Rick has been membership coordinator of HGLC since 2000 and treasurer since 2004. He graduated from Harvard with an AB in economics in 1971 and then spent the next 4 years down the street getting a PhD from MIT. He spent 25 years as an economist in DC, first at the US Dept of Health and Human Services and then at the Congressional Budget Office. His area of expertise started off as welfare reform, switched to Social Security, and ended up as federal taxation. He retired in 2000 as the Deputy Assistant Director of CBO for revenue forecasting. He can frequently be seen attending theater and dance events in the DC area. Since retiring, he has been a major contributor to the production of three ballets and many plays.

Juan Jaime lives in Jamaica Plain, MA, and enjoys his 5 minute walk to work as a primary care doctor at a community health center, where 2/3 of his patients are Spanish speaking. He was the Cambridge/Boston Chapter co-director for several years, has already served as the chair of the Annual Dinner and is a two time elected-Director. Originally from Puerto Rico and then New York, Juan Jaime graduated from Harvard College and the Medical School. After a few years in the Navy, he came back to Boston where he occasionally teaches at the Med School, is a non-resident Pre-med tutor at Lowell House, works in LGBT affairs at Brigham and Women's Hospital and is also on the board of Earthen Vessals, a program that works with urban youth.

Winsome resides in Washington, DC, and works as a federal civil rights attorney. In law school, she was active in HLS Lambda, where she assisted with fundraising for the marriage conference. She was also active in a number of other student civil rights organizations, including the Black Law Students Association, the Civil Rights - Civil Liberties Law Review and the Civil Liberties Association. Winsome has been an LGBT rights activist since her first year at Rutgers College (BA 1995). While at Rutgers, Winsome co-founded a women's activist group, Lesbian and Bisexual Women in Action (LABIA). As the president of LABIA, Winsome conducted a program on being out in the workforce, participated in several student rights initiatives, and conducted a number of LGBT outreach programs. Winsome was elected for the position of Vice President of the Rutgers Student Governing Association, for which she campaigned as an out lesbian. She believes that LGBT issues, race, class, and gender are interconnected.

Warren Goldfarb, AB '69, PhD '75, is the W.B. Pearson Professor of Modern Mathematics and Mathematical Logic, in the Philosophy Department at Harvard. He is one of the founders of the Harvard Gay & Lesbian Caucus, was an HGLC Director for many years and continues as an ex-officio Director. Additionally, Warren has been the President of The Open Gate since its inception in 1986 and is a Board member of The Gay & Lesbian Review / Worldwide. He lives in Cambridge.

Rachel joined the HGLC board in 2010. As an undergraduate, she served as co-chair of Girlspot and was active in what was then known as the BGLTSA. She is currently a business litigator at a law firm in New York City. Rachel lives in Park Slope, Brooklyn with her partner, Nikki DeBlosi (also AB 99).

Bob was a member of the HGLC Board of Directors from 1997 to 2001, and was Co-Chair of the Caucus from 1994 to 1997; he is currently an Ex-Officio Member of the Board. He worked at Hale and Dorr (now WilmerHale ) for 31 years, as a lawyer for 15 years and subsequently in Information Technology. He also co-founded FreshAddress.com and created MemDir.org . He is currently an independent video producer. He lives in Cambridge .

Timothy Patrick McCarthy '93 is Lecturer on History and Literature and on Public Policy at Harvard. He is also Core Faculty and Director of the Sexuality, Gender, and Human Rights Program at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. After graduating with honors from Harvard, he received his M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. in History from Columbia. An historian of social movements and media culture, Dr. McCarthy has published three books--The Radical Reader: A Documentary History of the American Radical Tradition (New Press, 2003); Prophets of Protest: Reconsidering the History of American Abolitionism (New Press, 2006); and Protest Nation: Words That Inspired a Century of American Radicalism (New Press, 2010)--and has two more to be published in 2012. Dr. McCarthy is an award-winning teacher and advisor whose courses are consistently among the most popular and highly rated at Harvard. In addition to his work as a scholar and teacher, Dr. McCarthy is a devoted public servant and political activist. A national leader in the LGBT community, Dr. McCarthy was a founding member of Barack Obama’s National LGBT Leadership Council, has given expert testimony to the Pentagon Comprehensive Working Group on the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” serves on the advisory board of the Harvey Milk Foundation, and is lead research collaborator and founding board member for Face Value, an organization dedicated to eradicating social and cultural stigma against LGBT people. In 2010, Face Value received $730,000 in funding from the Ford Foundation, one of the largest grants ever given by Ford to support LGBT-related research. In April 2009, Dr. McCarthy delivered Harvard’s prestigious Nicholas Papadopoulos Lecture. He is serving his third term on the HGLC Board, and also currently serves as Vice President of College Alumni Affairs for the Harvard Alumni Association. Dr. McCarthy and his husband, C.J. Crowder M.Ed. '02, live as Resident Affiliates in Quincy House, where they were married on Memorial Day 2011.

Robyn, www.robynochs.com , has been part of the Harvard community since 1983. She retired from her work in Romance Languages and Literatures in 2009. She serves on the steering committee for the LGBT Faculty & Staff Group as a retiree rep and on the Trans Task Force, and was a co-facilitator of the monthly LBTQ Women’s lunches for Harvard staff and faculty. Off campus, she is co-founder of the Bisexual Resource Center and the Boston Bisexual Women’s Network. She is editor of the 42-country anthology, Getting Bi: Voices of Bisexuals Around the World . She has taught in the field of gender and sexuality studies at Tufts University, MIT, and Johnson State College in Vermont, and she is a professional speaker on bisexuality, identity and labels, coalition building, marriage equality, and homophobia. An advocate for the rights of people of ALL orientations and genders to live safely, openly and with full legal equality, Robyn’s work focuses on increasing awareness and understanding of complex identities, and mobilizing people to be powerful allies to one another within and across identities and social movements.

Tom has been an HGLC Board member since 1998 and is a former president of the Caucus. He is also on the Board of Directors of the Gay & Lesbian Review and in 1995 became the first openly gay Elected Director of the Harvard Alumni Association. Tom has been volunteering for Harvard for the past 30 years. Professionally, Tom is a consultant in computer games and he lives in Los Angeles with his husband, Juan Bastos, a noted portrait artist.

Steve graduated from Harvard in 2007 with an AB in the History of Art and Architecture. Since graduating he has performed research for an internationally recognized contemporary art exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, assisted a world-renowned collection of French drawings and now finally makes art instead of studying it. Steve works as a graphic designer/front-end engineer for the high-tech start-up, SCVNGR. Steve recently relocated to Zurich, Switzerland with his partner Israel Meir (Ext. '03).

Shelley is a social impact strategist, board facilitator and ordained minister. As a transsexual woman and parent, Shelley is a passionate advocate for LGBTQTI rights and a pro bono consultant to a wide range of non-profit organizations that address issues of discrimination based on biological sex, gender identity, etc. Her philosophy is simple: “love your neighbor”; NO exceptions. Regarding Shelley's professional life, she is the founder and former leader of global consulting practices and a ‘think tank’ addressing CEO and Board-level issues; a Certified Corporate Director, serving and chairing non-profit boards; and a speaker, author and educator regarding social change strategy and human rights. Her most recent work focuses on accelerating the growth of social enterprises, using multi-platform campaigns to engage audiences and call them to action.

Michael is a native New Yorker.  The only extended period he has been away from New York was the three years he spent at Harvard Law School.  In 1991, after practicing law for 20 years, Michael was appointed to the bench.  He is currently an Acting Justice of the NY Supreme Court in the Criminal Term in Manhattan.  Michael has been involved in Harvard alumni activities of various sorts since graduation.  A founder of the NY LGBT alumni group in 1980, he serves as the NYC co-coordinator for the Caucus.  He was also a member of the Law School Association’s Council and Executive Committee and a founder of the LGBT Alumni Committee.  Michael is president of NY’s Association of Lesbian & Gay Judges and a past president of the International Association of Lesbian & Gay Judges.  He has also served as secretary of the NYC Bar Association, and is currently a member of the NY State Bar Association’s House of Delegates as well as the Executive Council of the NY Network of Bar Leaders.

While at Harvard, Lano was active in the Hasty Pudding Theatricals, President of Winthrop House Committee, a producer for Harvard Radcliffe Summer Theatre and a researcher/writer for Let's Go (London). After graduating in 2000, Lano moved to Los Angeles. He worked in non-profit fundraising, advertising and marketing; including three years at Pallotta TeamWorks, the creator of the AIDSRide and Breast Cancer 3Day Walks. In 2007, he returned to graduate school, earning an MA in Non-Profit Arts Management and an MBA in Marketing from Southern Methodist University in Dallas in 2009. While there he served as President of the Out in Business Club, Vice President of the Student Advisory Board, and led his class on a tour of Asia as part of the American Airlines Global Leadership Experience. During his time at SMU he also studied law and business abroad at Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi in Milan. In the fall of 2009, he continued into the JD program at Loyola Law School (LLS) and expects to graduate in 2012 with a focus on the intersection of Intellectual Property law and non-profit arts and culture. Lano is an active member of Lesbian and Gay Lawyers of Los Angeles, the National LGBT Bar, Mexican American Bar Association, the Vice President of OutLaw at LLS, and Vice Chair of the ACLU Chapter at LLS. He has interned at the ACLU of Southern California and with the Intellectual Property Counsel of the LA City Attorney.

Rhonda has been a member of the Caucus for many years and is past-president of the Board. During her undergraduate years, Rhonda had leadership positions in several gay and lesbian organizations that have morphed into the current QSA. She is a compiler writer and works remotely for a world-wide software company. Rhonda also serves on the Board of The Open Gate.