Vermont's leading LGBT rights group, Outright Vermont, named a new executive director on Monday.
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Vermont's leading LGBT rights group, Outright Vermont, named a new executive director on Monday.
Vermont's leading LGBT rights group, Outright Vermont, named a new executive director on Monday. Christopher Neff will succeed Lluvia Mulvaney-Stanak, who stepped down in September, according to a press release.
"Being young and queer in rural America will never be easy, but I look forward to working with all Vermonters so youth are welcomed, empowered, and respected because of the gifts their diversity brings to this state," he said in a statement.
Neff recently earned a master's degree in public policy with honors from the University of Sydney. He has worked for both Republican senator John Warner of Virginia and Democratic senator Harry Reid of Nevada. On LGBT issues, Neff has worked for the Michael D. Palm Center at the University of California at Santa Barbara and the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network. He also served as president of the Gay and Lesbian Activists Alliance of Washington, D.C., and on the board of directors for the Equality Federation, a national alliance of statewide LGBT political organizations. (The Advocate)
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