Gina Reiss

Gina Reiss is the Managing Director for the Gender Public Advocacy Coalition (GenderPAC). She served as the Action Vice-President of NOW-NJ and Executive Director of the New Jersey Lesbian and Gay Coalition. She also helped found the Federation of Statewide LGBT Advocacy Organizations. She is a graduate of UCLA.

Riki Wilchins

Riki Wilchins is Executive Director of the Gender Public Advocacy Coalition (GenderPAC). The author of Read My Lips, GenderQueer, and Queer Theory/Gender Theory, in 2001 TIME Magazine selected her one of "100 Civic Innovators for the 21st Century." Wilchins is a featured columnist on gender issues for The Advocate. She received her Bachelor’s from Cleveland State University and her Master’s in Clinical Psychology from New School for Social Research.

Danny Baker

Danny Baker is the Director of Operations and Finance for the Gender Public Advocacy Coalition (GenderPAC). He is a graduate of Ithaca College where he created his major in Queer Studies, and was the 2003 recipient of the Harvey Milk award for LGBT service. He was very involved in campus activism, serving on the boards of two queer student organizations and assisting in the establishment of the IC Center for LGBT Education, Outreach, and Services.

Lindsay Bond

Lindsay Bond is the National Field Director for the Gender Public Advocacy Coalition (GenderPAC). She recently completed her degrees in Political Science and Critical Gender Studies at UCSD. She comes to us from the National Organization for Women where she worked as a campus/chapter organizer for such events as the 2004 March for Women’s Lives and the recent election.

Tyrone Hanley

Tyrone is the Youth Program Coordinator for GenderPAC.  He has served as an AmeriCorps volunteer with the National AIDS Fund. Tyrone also currently volunteers with a number of local organizations, including DC OUTfront (an Amnesty International action team), the Children's National Medical Center's Outreach Program, and Men Can Stop Rape. Tyrone is a graduate of the University of Richmond.

Brittney Hoffman

Brittney Hoffman is a Youth Program Coordinator for GenderPAC.  She received her Masters of Arts degree in Women’s Studies and Public Policy at George Washington University. While studying at GWU, Brittney was co-editor of “queer.,” a national academic journal. She was awarded the 2006 Graduate Prize in Feminist Scholarship for her seminar paper on policies concerning Mother-To-Child-Transmission of HIV/AIDS in South Asia. Brittney volunteers with HIPS (Helping Individual Prostitutes Survive) and remains active within the feminist community in Washington, DC.

Taneika Taylor

Taneika is the Communications and Parenting Director for GenderPAC.  She is the former Media Director for the Afro-American Cultural Center at Yale University, where she earned a degree in African-American Studies and Sociology. The mother of a one-year-old, Taneika was also a  lead teacher in the Washington, DC public school system, and has taught creative writing for DC Scores.