Staff Bios

Riki Wilchins

Riki Wilchins, Executive Director
The author of Read My Lips, GenderQueer, and Queer Theory/Gender Theory, in 2001 Riki Wilchins was selected as one of TIME Magazine's "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. 

 

Gina ReissGina Reiss, Managing Director
Before working at GenderPAC, Gina Reiss 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.
 

Danny Baker
Danny Baker, Director of Operations and Finance
Danny Baker is a graduate of Ithaca College where he created his major in Queer Studies, and received the 2003 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 BondLindsay Bond, National Field Director
Lindsay Bond completed her degrees in Political Science and Critical Gender Studies at UCSD. She comes to GenderPAC 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 2004 election.
 


Tyrone HanleyTyrone Hanley, Youth Program Coordinator
Tyrone Hanley 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.  A graduate of the University of He has served as an AmeriCorps volunteer with the National AIDS Fund. Tyrone is a graduate of the University of Richmond.


Brittney Hoffman, Youth Program Coordinator
Brittney Hoffman
Brittney Hoffman received her Masters of Arts in Women’s Studies and Public Policy at George Washington University. While studying at GWU, she 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. She currently volunteers with HIPS (Helping Individual Prostitutes Survive) and remains active within the feminist community.



Taneika TaylorTaneika Taylor, Director of Communications and Parenting
Taneika Taylor 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 two-year-old, she was also a  lead teacher in the Washington, DC public school system, and has taught creative writing for DC Scores.
 


    

                         
April
4/11 Chicago, IL
May
5/2 New York, NY
June
6/4 Denver, CO
July
7/26 Chicago, IL