About Us

Tom has been an HGLC Board member since 1998 and is serving in his fifth term as 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 25 years. Professionally, Tom is a consultant in computer games. He lives in Los Angeles with his partner of 12 years, Juan Bastos, a noted portrait artist.

Rhonda has been a member of the Caucus for many years and was elected to the Board in June 2006. During her undergraduate years, Rhonda had leadership positions in several gay and lesbian organizations that have morphed into the current BGLTSA. During the '80s and '90s she lobbied loudly for workplace benefits for same-sex couples. She currently works in the high-tech industry as the Director of Software for a hardware design start-up. Rhonda was also recently appointed to the Board of The Open Gate.

Mario was born in Boston and raised in New Jersey. Following a decade at Harvard, he has lived in Munich, San Diego, Boston, and now San Francisco. Mario has been an enthusiastic Caucus member for several years and has been serving as Secretary since June 2004. He is also past Treasurer of Asians and Friends Boston and has swum with the DSST and LANES LGBT swim teams in San Diego and Boston. Professionally, Mario is a research scientist and software developer specializing in Physics, Computer Science, and Complexity Science consulting.

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.

Dimitrios is a first-year Computer Science PhD student at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University. He graduated from the Aristotelian University in Thessaloniki, Greece, and holds an MS in Computer Science from the Athens University of Economics and Business. He is the new volunteer webmaster for the HGLC.

While at Harvard, Eddie was a Resource Center Coordinator and Board Member of the BGLTSA, co-facilitator of the Peace and Justice Corps of the Cambridge Peace Commission, and co-director of the Prison Education Program. In 2005, Eddie received his Magister Artium in European Ethnology from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, where he was a DAAD fellow. His MA thesis dealt with HIV risk minimization in Berlin prisons. Eddie is currently a JD/LLM candidate at Columbia University School of Law in New York and King's College at the University of London. During law school, Eddie participated in the nation's first Sexuality and Gender Law Clinic. He is deeply committed to investigating the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, migration, human rights and the law. Eddie is based in London.

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 seeks to repeal the “don’t ask, don’t tell” law.

Rebecca has been a web designer at HBS since 2001, and she has worked on most of the school's web sites as a designer, programmer, or information architect. She completed her CAS in 2006 at the extension school, concentrating in multimedia and computer science, and completed an MS in Software Engineering with Project Management at Brandeis University in the spring of 2007. She did the latest redesign of the HGLC web site with Carol Kassel and will continue to serve as the site's designer. Rebecca is also a member of the Boston Steering Committee for the Human Rights Campaign, serving as their web content manager. She helped form an informal LGBT faculty/staff lunch group at the business school and is also a member of the Harvard wide LGBT Faculty/Staff Steering Committee. She performs a variety of freelance work, multitasking in design, programming, and flash. Feel free to find out more about Rebecca on her web site at www.crimsonmedialab.com.

Michael, PhD 1968, Univ. of California , Berkeley , has been the Oleksandr Potebnja Professor of Ukrainian Philology at Harvard since 1991. He is on the Board of Directors of the Caucus. His primary academic affiliations are with the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures (Chair, 1999-2005), the Department of Linguistics (Chair, 1994-99), and the Ukrainian Research Institute (Director, 2004 to the present). He lives in Cambridge .

Winsome resides in Washington, DC, and works as an appellate attorney for the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia. 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.

Tom served on the Board from 1997-2003 and is a former co-chair of the Caucus. He is the evaluation manager at the Annie E. Casey Foundation in Baltimore , Maryland . He and his partner reside in Berkeley Springs , WV , and Baltimore .

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 is Lecturer on History and Literature, Adjunct Lecturer at the Kennedy School of Government, and Assistant Resident Dean of Quincy House at Harvard University.  After graduating with honors from Harvard in 1993, Tim went on to earn two Master’s degrees and a Ph.D. in History from Columbia.  A cultural historian whose work focuses on African-American culture and the history of social movements, he has published two books—The Radical Reader (New Press, 2003) and Prophets of Protest (New Press, 2006)—and is currently working on several other projects.  An award-winning teacher and advisor, Tim teaches several popular courses at Harvard and advises undergraduates on issues related to race, gender, and sexuality.  As Class Secretary, he is active in the Harvard Alumni Association, and devotes a great deal of time to various public service projects.  Two years ago, with the help of an Open Gate grant, he ran the first-ever LBGT Film Series at the Harvard Film Archive.  This is his second year on the Caucus Board, but Tim serves on many other boards, and he lectures widely on topics ranging from history and literature to politics and civil rights.

Robyn, www.robynochs.com , has been part of the Harvard community since 1983 and currently works part-time in Romance Languages and Literatures. She is on the steering committee for the new LGBT Faculty & Staff Group and 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 a new book, Getting Bi: Voices of Bisexuals Around the World http://www.biresource.org/249. 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. She is advisor to the BGLTSA. She is particularly interested in increasing HGLC's role and visibility at Harvard, in strengthening gender and sexuality studies at Harvard, in working with current Harvard undergraduate students, and in continuing to make Harvard a safer and more welcoming place for LGBT people (and she is very serious about ALL of these letters).

Brian Sands lives in the French Quarter of New Orleans where he is Co-Theater/Performing Arts Editor of Ambush Magazine, the Gulf South's largest GLBT publication (www.ambushmag.com), and Literary Manager for Southern Rep Theater (www.southernrep.com). He is also an award-winning playwright and is among the contributors to "Love, Bourbon Street" which received the 2007 Lambda Literary Award for Best Anthology. Brian is a founder of HQ83, our class' GLB alumni group. He served on the HGLC Board of Directors 2003-2005 during which time he edited the E-Newsletter and helped to coordinate GLBT Reunions. He hopes everyone reading this will come visit the slowly-but-surely recovering New Orleans for Mardi Gras, Halloween, Southern Decadence or, well, any time at all!

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 Division in the Bronx.  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.