Transgender Awareness Week Events

In honor of Transgender Awareness Week, Allies & Advocates for GLBT Equality invite you to participate in a conference call conversation with Noah Lewis, staff attorney at the Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund.

Noah will speak about his experience transitioning while in law school, as well as his work on national legal issues that affect transgender people. Transgender people have been subject to pervasive discrimination that has kept them, with rare exceptions, hidden from public view. While this discrimination has begun to lessen, transgender people still experience much prejudice and violence.

Wednesday, 16 November at noon, Room 125

Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund (TLDEF) is committed to ending discrimination based upon gender identity and expression and to achieving equality for transgender people through public education, test-case litigation, direct legal services, community organizing and public policy efforts.

Noah E. Lewis, TLDEF Staff Attorney
Noah is a Pittsburgh native and a graduate of Harvard Law School. There he received the Dean's Award for Community Service for his work with the Harvard Transgender Task Force, Lambda, and the Student Animal Legal Defense Fund. His work included assisting with the campaign that added gender identity to Harvard's nondiscrimination policy and achieving improvements in insurance coverage for transgender health care. Noah also graduated magna cum laude from the University of Pittsburgh with a B.S. in chemistry and a B.A. in the history and philosophy of science. While at Pitt he helped lead a successful campaign to get domestic partner health benefits at the university. Prior to joining TLDEF, Noah worked in animal advocacy. He is a long-time vegan.


Other upcoming Allies & Advocates events:
Monday, 14 November - Discussion on Nebraska Constitution and Equal Rights
Monday, 28 November - Ryan Sallens, guest speaker on local transgender issues