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Featured Speaker: Kevin M. Cathcart, Executive Director, Lambda Legal Kevin M. Cathcart, Executive Director of Lambda Legal Featured Speaker: Kevin M. Cathcart, Executive Director, Lambda Legal Kevin M. Cathcart, Executive Director of Lambda Legal since 1992, is a leading strategist and spokesperson in the movement to achieve full recognition of the civil rights of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, transgender people and people with HIV. Cathcart has made Lambda Legal an unparalleled national force through its far-reaching litigation and public education. Under his leadership, Lambda Legal promotes security, respect and fairness for lesbian and gay youth, families and all people, regardless of sexual orientation or HIV status. Lambda Legal's groundbreaking work reached new heights in 2003 when it won a U.S. Supreme Court victory striking down Texas' "Homosexual Conduct" law and every law like it in the nation. Lambda Legal was lead counsel in the case, representing two men who were arrested in Houston while having consensual sex at home. The landmark ruling continues to impact all areas of LGBT people's lives, and Cathcart has mapped out a wide-ranging strategy for Lambda Legal to turn its historic court victory into a reality in people's everyday lives. In 2009, Lambda Legal won a historic and unanimous victory for marriage equality in Iowa, extending the organizationís record of groundbreaking accomplishments. Other unique programs begun during Cathcart's tenure include Lambda Legal's Foster Care Initiative to improve care of lesbian and gay youth in foster care, whose needs go largely unmet throughout the country. With its Marriage Project, Lambda Legal plays a leading role in litigation and education to win the freedom to marry. Cathcart has fostered dramatic growth in the organization as well as in the scope of its work. He oversaw the opening of Lambda Legal's second regional office, the Midwest Regional Office in Chicago in 1993, followed by the opening of the Southern Regional Office in Atlanta and the South Central Regional Office in Dallas. From its regional offices, including the Western Regional Office in Los Angeles and from its New York Headquarters, Lambda Legal responds to requests for help and information from thousands of individuals facing discrimination each year. Since Cathcart took Lambda Legal's helm, the staff has more than quadrupled and the organization's budget has grown to just over $10 million. A longtime leader in the lesbian and gay community, Cathcart served from 1984 to 1992 as executive director of Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders (GLAD) in Boston, New England's lesbian, gay, and AIDS legal organization. Prior to GLAD, Cathcart was a staff attorney at the North Shore Children's Law Project. He also serves on the Steering Committee of the LGBT Executive Directorís Institute. Cathcart graduated from Richard Stockton State College (New Jersey) in 1976 and the Harvard Graduate School of Education in 1978. He received his J.D. from Northeastern School of Law in 1982. James D. Esseks, ESQ. Co-Director of the ACLU LGBT & AIDS Project James D. Esseks is co-director of the ACLU Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender & AIDS Project, where he has worked since 2001. At the ACLU, Mr. Esseks oversees litigation around the country that aims to ensure equal treatment of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people by the government; equal rights and protections for LGBT couples and families; protection from discrimination in jobs, schools, housing, and public accommodations; and fair treatment by the government of people living with HIV. Examples include cases challenging the exclusion of same-sex couples from marriage; challenges to bans on adoption or foster parenting by lesbians and gay men; challenges to schools that seek to stifle the speech or association rights of LGBT students; and cases seeking to protect transgender people from discrimination in employment. Prior to joining the ACLU, Mr. Esseks was a partner at Vladeck, Waldman, Elias & Engelhard, P.C., in New York, where he represented employees in a range of employment matters. Mr. Esseks graduated from Yale College and Harvard Law School, where he was editor-in-chief of the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review. He clerked for the Honorable Robert L. Carter, United States District Judge for the Southern District of New York, and the Honorable James R. Browning, United States Circuit Judge for the Ninth Circuit. Kathleen M. Sullivan, Stanley Morrison Professor of Law and Former Dean, Stanford Law School Kathleen M. Sullivan is a nationally prominent scholar and teacher of constitutional law. Author of the nation’s leading casebook in constitutional law, she has published articles on federalism, religion, speech, equality, and constitutional theory. A professor of law at Harvard Law School before joining the Stanford Law School faculty in 1993, she is an elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society. Also an outstanding litigator who has argued before numerous appeals courts and the U.S. Supreme Court, she has been named by the National Law Journal as one of the 100 most influential lawyers in America. From 1999 to 2004, Professor Sullivan served as the eleventh dean of Stanford Law School and the first woman dean of any school at Stanford. As dean, she made fifteen faculty appointments, established the clinical faculty, renovated all 17 classrooms and the library reading room, launched numerous academic centers, started the LLM program, and raised over $100 million for the school. Tobias Wolff, Chief Advisor and Spokesperson on LGBT Issues for Presidential Candidate Obama Tobias Wolff served as the chief advisor and spokesperson on LGBT issues for presidential candidate Barack Obama throughout the 2007-08 campaign. Wolff is currently a law professor and civil rights lawyer. As a scholar, Professor Wolff specializes in the fields of Constitutional Law, Civil Procedure, and the Conflict of Laws, and his work has been widely cited in fields ranging from free speech and the First Amendment to class action litigation. As a civil rights lawyer, he has worked extensively on the rights of gay men and lesbians, with particular focus in two areas: relationship rights, and the U.S. military's Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy. Professor Wolff is an active participant in the marriage equality litigation in California, consulting with lead counsel and representing the NAACP, the Equal Justice Society and other civil rights organizations in submitting two briefs before the California Supreme Court on behalf of California couples. He has also participated in the marriage equality cases in Iowa and Hawai'i and has worked behind the scenes in similar cases around the country. From 1999 to 2008, Professor Wolff served as co-counsel in a civil rights case in Alaska that succeeded in securing equal employment benefits for the same-sex partners of municipal and state employees throughout that State -- the most significant gay rights ruling in Alaska history. Professor Wolff is also one of the Nation's leading commentators and advocates on the Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy, an issue that he has worked on for over a dozen years, and he has been involved in constitutional challenges to that policy in courts around the country. Following his graduation from Yale Law School, Wolff served as a judicial clerk for two judges on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and worked for two years as a litigator at a top New York firm. He then began his teaching career at the University of California, Davis Law School, living in the Bay Area for six years. He now makes his home in Philadelphia as a tenured professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He has been a visiting professor at Stanford and Northwestern Law Schools and is currently scheduled for visits at NYU and Harvard. 2009 Speaker Biographies: Bebe J. Anderson is the HIV Project Director at Lambda Legal. Prior to joining Lambda Legal in July 2006, she was a Staff Attorney with the Center for Reproductive Rights; Co-Executive Director of the HIV Law Project; a partner at Erickson, Beasley, Hewitt & Wilson; a staff attorney with the Civil Division of the Legal Aid Society of New York City; and an associate at Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam and Roberts (now Pillsbury Winthrop). Ms. Anderson is a graduate of Columbia University School of Law and received a bachelor’s degree in Biological Sciences from the University of California at Santa Barbara. Bob Bacigalupi is a staff attorney at Housing Works, Inc., where he serves low-income individuals living with AIDS. Prior to working at Housing Works, Mr. Bacigalupi served as: Coordinating Attorney for Government Benefits at Legal Services NYC, an Assistant Attorney General at the New York State Department of Law, where he was Deputy Chief of the unit that handled most of the major poverty- related lawsuits brought against the State from 1992 to 1996, and an associate at the law firm of Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam and Roberts -- now Pillsbury Winthrop. Mr. Bacigalupi has also served as: Chair of the City Bars Committee on Social Welfare Law, President of LeGaL, Co-Chair for the National Lesbian and Gay Law Association, and a member of the New York County Lawyer's Association's Judicial Selection Task Force,. Mr. Bacigalupi obtained his law degree from New York Law School, where he served as editor-in-chief of New York Law Schools Journal of International and Comparative Law and has a BFA from the Juilliard School. Mr. Bacigalupi is the author of, inter alia: LGBT Underrepresentation on the Judiciary and in the Judicial Selection Process of New York State (June 2007). M. V. Lee Badgett is the research director at the Williams Institute. She is also the director of the Center for Public Policy and Administration and associate professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
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