LGBT Legislative Forum February 11, 2015; 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM

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Hon. Gale Brewer Assemblymember Matthew Titone

Alphonso David

Lyle Frank

State Senator Brad Hoykman NYC Councilmember Corey Johnson Assemblymember Daniel J O’Donnell

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LGBT LEGISLATIVE FORUM

NSTITUTE Prepared in connection with a Continuing Legal Education course presented

I at New York County Lawyers’ Association, 14 Vesey Street, New York, NY

scheduled for February 11, 2015

Program Co-sponsors: NYCLA’s LGBT Committee; Puerto Rican Bar Association (PRBA); New York Women's Bar Association (NYWBA)

CLE Program Chair: George Santana, Chair, NYCLA LGBT Committee

Moderator: Lyle Frank, Esq.

Faculty: Hon. Gale Brewer, Manhattan Borough President; Assemblymember Matthew Titone, Staten Island; Alphonso David, Deputy Secretary for Civil Rights, NYS; State Senator Brad Hoykman, Manhattan; NYC Councilmember Corey Johnson, Manhattan; Assemblymember Daniel J. O'Donnell, Manhattan NYCLA

This course has been approved in accordance with the requirements of the New York State Continuing Legal Education Board for a maximum of 2 Transitional and Non-Transitional credit hours: 2 Professional Practice/Law Practice Management. This program has been approved by the Board of Continuing Legal education of the Supreme Court of New Jersey for 2 hours of total CLE credits. Of these, 0 qualify as hours of credit for ethics/professionalism, and 0 qualify as hours of credit toward certification in civil trial law, criminal law, workers compensation law and/or matrimonial law. ACCREDITED PROVIDER STATUS: NYCLA’s CLE Institute is currently certified as an Accredited Provider of continuing legal education in the States of New York and New Jersey.

Information Regarding CLE Credits and Certification LGBT Legislative Forum February 11, 2015; 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM

The New York State CLE Board Regulations require all accredited CLE providers to provide documentation that CLE course attendees are, in fact, present during the course. Please review the following NYCLA rules for MCLE credit allocation and certificate distribution.

i. You must sign-in and note the time of arrival to receive your course materials and receive MCLE credit. The time will be verified by the Program Assistant.

ii. You will receive your MCLE certificate as you exit the room at the end of the course. The certificates will bear your name and will be arranged in alphabetical order on the tables directly outside the auditorium.

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New York County Lawyers’ Association Continuing Legal Education Institute 14 Vesey Street, New York, N.Y. 10007 • (212) 267-6646

LGBT Legislative Forum

Wednesday, February 11, 2015, 6:00 PM-8:00 PM

Program Chair: George Santana, Chair, NYCLA LGBT Committee

Program Co-sponsors: NYCLA’s LGBT Committee; Puerto Rican Bar Association (PRBA); New York Women's Bar Association (NYWBA)

Moderator: Lyle Frank, Esq.

AGENDA

5:30 PM – 6:00 PM Registration

6:00 PM – 6:10 PM Introductions and Announcements

6:10 PM – 8:00 PM Presentation and Discussion

Faculty Biographies

Lyle Frank is an attorney at the New York City Council, Human Services Division. He graduated from New York University and Brooklyn Law School, beginning his law career as an Assistant District Attorney in Kings County. He has also been an adjunct professor at the New York University School of Continuing and Professional Studies. He also was an adjunct professor at Baruch College, where he is an advisor to students in the National Urban Fellowship Program that prepares students for leadership and management positions in government or non-profit agencies.

Gale A. Brewer is the 27th Manhattan Borough President. Ms. Brewer previously served on the City Council for 12 years. As Councilmember, she successfully passed legislation guaranteeing paid sick leave for most hourly employees, compelling landlords to fix repeat violations, requiring all City data to be published online, and the nation’s first law protecting domestic workers. She was the founding chair of the City Council’s Technology Committee in 2002. Immediately prior to her election to the City Council, Brewer served as Project Manager for the NYC Nonprofits Project at CUNY’s Graduate Center, and before that worked for the Telesis Corporation, a private firm that builds affordable housing in New York City. Prior to that non-profit and private-sector experience, Brewer served in City government in various roles, including as… •New York City Deputy Public Advocate •Director of Mayor Dinkins’ Federal Office in New York City •Executive Director of the Mayor’s Commission on the Status of Women •Chief of Staff to West Side Councilmember Ruth W. Messinger Brewer has an MPA from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, and she did her undergraduate work at Columbia University and Bennington College.

Matthew Titone is the son of Margaret and Hon. Vito J. Titone, Staten Island's only New York State Court of Appeals Judge. A lifelong Staten Islander, Matthew grew up in the Grymes Hill and West Brighton communities. While attending St. John's University School of Law, Matthew worked full time as a law clerk for the late John S. Zachary, Esq. Upon his admission to the New York State Bar in 1992, Matthew immediately began doing pro bono work for the Staten Island AIDS Task Force and Project Hospitality. In late 1993, he was named the Senior Trial Associate for the prestigious Wall Street firm of Morgan, Melhuish, Monahan, Arvidson, Abrutyn & Lisowski, and managed the firm's complex Labor Law litigation department, and litigated Insurance Law and Professional Malpractice Liability cases. He left the firm in 1998 to open his own private law practice on Staten Island. Throughout his career, Matthew consistently provided pro bono services to those who couldn't afford legal representation. His efforts aided Project Hospitality in creating a full-time professionally staffed legal service department. Matthew serves on the Board of Directors of Community Health Action of Staten Island (f/k/a the Staten Island AIDS Task Force), and has also served on the Board of Trustees for Legal Services of New York, providing oversight on the Legal Aid Society, amongst others. Matthew garnered national attention when he took on the New York State adoption industry representing a family who adopted a baby boy. The family was never informed by the adoption agency that the child was born with the AIDS virus and resulted in the child being untreated for his illness for eleven years after the adoption was completed. Not only did Matthew provide legal support and guidance for the family, he also helped the young man establish the Justin LiGreci HIV/AIDS Foundation for Children and Teens, a not for profit organization that provides educational services to the youth of Staten Island and New York metropolitan area. Matthew's civic participation includes his leadership at the Snug Harbor Cultural Center and in 1998, Matthew joined the Board of Trustees at the Snug Harbor Cultural Center. He also served on a number of its committees, including briefly serving as Interim President & C.E.O. He presently chairs the Merger Committee overseeing the merger of Snug Harbor Cultural Center with the Staten Island Botanical Garden.

Matthew is an active member of the Richmond County Bar Association, Federal Club Member of the Human Rights Campaign, Wagner College's DaVinci Society, the Loughlin Society of St. John's University, and St. John's University School of Law Alumni Society. Matthew was instrumental in enabling St. John's University to endow a scholarship in his late father's name to benefit Staten Island residents attending the school. In 2004, he was the recipient of the Community Health Action of Staten Island's Philanthropic Leadership Award.

Alphonso David is a civil rights attorney, law professor and policy advisor with significant litigation and management experience in the public, private, and not- for-profit sectors. In January 2011, he was appointed by Governor Andrew Cuomo as Deputy Secretary and Counsel for Civil Rights, the first position of its kind in New York State. In this role, he works on a full range of legal, policy, legislative and operational matters affecting civil rights and labor throughout the State. He previously served as Special Deputy Attorney General for Civil Rights for the Office of the New York State Attorney General, where he managed Assistant Attorneys General on a variety of state-wide anti-discrimination cases, including employment and housing discrimination, fair lending, reproductive rights and anti- bias claims. He was also responsible for strategic planning, case development, and policy analysis. Prior to joining the Attorney General’s Office, David served as Deputy Commissioner for Operations and Special Counselor to the Commissioner for the New York State Division of Human Rights. He also previously served as a Staff Attorney at Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund where he litigated cases relating to marriage, parenting rights, discrimination in schools and access to health care. Prior to working in public and non-profit sectors, he served as Corporate Counsel for Canyon at Peace Park; and a Litigation Associate at the law firm, Blank Rome LLP. David began his legal career as a judicial clerk to the Honorable Clifford Scott Green in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. David also serves as an Adjunct Professor of Law at Fordham University School of Law and Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. He received a BA from University of Maryland and a JD from Temple University School of Law.

State Senator Brad Hoylman represents New York's 27th State Senate District, which covers much of the heart of Manhattan, including the neighborhoods of Clinton/Hell’s Kitchen, Chelsea, Greenwich Village, the Upper West Side, Midtown/East Midtown, Columbus Circle, Times Square, Stuyvesant Town- Peter Cooper Village, the East Village and Lower East Side. He was first elected to the State Senate in November 2012 after having spent more than 20 years as a Democratic grassroots activist in the communities he represents. Senator Hoylman is a former Democratic District Leader and three-term Chair of Manhattan Community Board 2. He is a former Trustee of the Community Service Society, New York City’s leading anti-poverty organization, and is a former board member of the Empire State Pride Agenda, Tenants & Neighbors, Class Size Matters and Citizen Action. A past-president of the Gay & Lesbian Independent Democrats, he and his husband, David, and their young daughter, Silvia, are members of the LGBT synagogue, Congregation Beit Simchat Torah. Although Senator Hoylman has deep roots in Manhattan, he was born and raised in rural West Virginia as the youngest of six children. He attended public schools through college, graduated with honors, won a Rhodes Scholarship, and put himself through Harvard Law School. After graduating, he began his non-profit legal career in affordable housing, eventually becoming general counsel of the Partnership for New York City, a non-profit business and civic organization. Senator Hoylman is a strong advocate for better public schools, tenants’ rights, responsible development, neighborhood preservation, open space and public transportation. He has brought to Albany the same reform-minded approach that he demonstrated as a community activist and leader. Some of his top priorities include: fighting for New York City’s fair share of education dollars and increasing parental involvement in school governance decisions; strengthening laws to protect rent regulated tenants; reforming campaign finance laws to encourage smaller donations and wider participation in the political process while lessening the corrupting influence of big money donations; making the state tax system more progressive; winning passage of the Gender Equality Non- Discrimination Act (GENDA), securing greater resources for LGBT youth; and keeping transit fares low while improving maintenance and operations on our subways and buses. Senator Hoylman is proud to represent New York State’s 27th Senate District, which includes some of New York City’s oldest and storied neighborhoods, and to be an advocate for those New Yorkers who normally do not have a voice in the halls of government.

Councilmember Corey Johnson was elected in November 2013 with over 86% of the vote to represent the communities of Manhattan's West Side. Corey Johnson was raised in a union household where his mother, a homeless services provider, and his father, a Teamster, instilled in him the values of community service and political engagement. Corey first came to national attention in 2000 when he became a trailblazer for LGBT youth. As the captain of his high school football team, he took the courageous step of coming out publicly, and kept not only his position of leadership, but also the support of his school and teammates. Corey’s bravery landed him on the front page of the New York Times. In 2005, Corey joined Community Board 4, where he quickly gained the respect and trust of local leaders for his tireless work ethic and ability to build consensus. Corey volunteered countless hours in the community and worked hard to make Community Board 4 more responsive, organized, and effective. In 2011, after 6 years of service on Community Board 4, Corey was elected Chairperson by his peers. Corey led Community Board 4 in negotiating for thousands of new units of permanent affordable family housing, educational scholarships for underserved children, and pressuring New York State to protect our watershed from hydrofracking. Corey stood up for protecting our parks and recreational facilities from over development, reducing class sizes in our public schools, and restoring the Mayor’s proposed cuts to senior centers and meal programs. Community Board 4’s activism and persistence led to the future creation of two new public schools on the West Side -- a 750 seat public school at Hudson Yards and a new school facility for P.S. 51 on 45th Street in Hell’s Kitchen.

Daniel O’Donnell, the first openly gay man elected to the New York State Assembly, has been a progressive voice advocating fair and sensible legislation since he was elected to represent the 69th District in 2002. His district includes Manhattan Valley, Morningside Heights, and the Upper West Side. Born in Queens and raised with his four siblings in Commack, Long Island, O’Donnell put himself through college and law school, earning a B.A. in public affairs from George Washington University and a law degree from CUNY Law School. After seven years as a public defender at the Legal Aid Society, he opened his own public interest law firm on the Upper West Side. His community practice helped clients with tenant representation, as well as civil rights litigation ranging from employee discrimination to First Amendment rights. During his tenure in the Assembly he has been the prime sponsor of several trailblazing bills, most notably the Marriage Equality Act, a bill O’Donnell led to passage in the Assembly five times before it was finally signed into law in June 2011. He was also the prime sponsor of New York’s anti-bullying legislation, the Dignity for All Students Act, which requires public schools in New York to combat bias-based bullying and harassment. He currently serves as the Chair of the Correction Committee and the Chair of the Codes Subcommittee on Criminal Procedure. His other Standing Committee Assignments include: Codes; Education; Environmental Conservation; Judiciary; Oversight, Analysis & Investigation; and Tourism, Parks, Arts & Sports Development. He and his husband, John Banta, live in Morningside Heights.