Lunchtime Talk with Chase Strangio, Staff Attorney, The ACLU LGBT & HIV Project
Wednesday, March 1st, 2017
Jerome Greene Hall - Room 105
12:10 pm
Facebook event link: https://www.facebook.com/events/245041209288024/
Professor Katherine Franke, the Center for Gender & Sexuality Law and the Public Rights/Private Conscience Project are pleased to host Chase Strangio for a lunchtime talk on recent religion-based backlash against LGBTQ rights, including the First Amendment Defense Act, and other pending legislation. The Public Rights/Private Conscience Project's mission is to bring legal academic expertise to bear on the multiple contexts in which religious liberty rights conflict with or undermine other fundamental rights to equality and liberty. This lunchtime talk is part of the Public Rights/Private Conscience Project's series of lunchtime talks on Law, Rights and Religion.
Chase Strangio (@chasestrangio) is a Staff Attorney with the ACLU's LGBT & AIDS Project. Chase's work includes impact litigation, as well as legislative and administrative advocacy, on behalf of LGBTQ people and people living with HIV across the United States. Chase has particular expertise on the treatment of transgender and gender non-conforming people in police custody, jails, prisons and other forms of detention.
Prior to joining the ACLU, Chase was an Equal Justice Works fellow and the Director of Prisoner Justice Initiatives at the Sylvia Rivera Law Project, where he represented transgender and gender non-conforming individuals in confinement settings. In 2012, Chase founded the Lorena Borjas Community Fund, an organization that provides direct bail/bond assistance to LGBTQ immigrants in criminal and immigration cases. Chase is a graduate of Northeastern University School of Law and Grinnell College.
This event is free and open to the public. A non-pizza lunch will be served.