Making a Career Working for LGBTQ+ Rights: An Alumni Panel

Dean Melanie Leslie ’91 will moderate a panel of distinguished alumni who will speak about their experiences working to advance LGBTQ+ rights in the legal world. They will discuss cases and projects they have worked on, how recent high-profile legislation targeting the LGBTQ+ community has impacted their work and provide advice for law students who want to enter the field. Panelists: Taylor Brown ’17 is a Staff Attorney in the ACLU’s LGBTQ & HIV Project. Jason Starr ’10 has over 15 years of experience as an attorney, educator and strategist in the fight for human rights. Debra Guston ’88 is a partner at Guston & Guston, LLP and a Visiting Lecturer at Rutgers School of Law with expertise on topics of adoption, assisted reproduction and LGBT issues. Nina Frank ’11 is Counsel at Outten & Golden LLP in New York, where she represents individual employees in litigation and negotiation in all areas of employment law. Ryan Nelson ’11 is an Assistant Professor of Law at South Texas College of Law in Houston.https://larc.cardozo.yu.edu/event-invitations-2023/1008/thumbnail.jp