June 27, 2014

LaWana Mayfield and Keisha Waites Join Elite LGBT Leadership Fellows

The Gay & Lesbian Victory Institute and the David Bohnett Foundation announced three graduates of the David Bohnett LGBT Leadership Fellowship. The three fellows for the June 2014 class spent three weeks of intense state and local government programing at the Harvard Kennedy School in Cambridge, Mass.
June 13, 2014
Michelle Alexander and Teresa Vest-Dowell

Tagg Writer Featured on Front Page of The Washington Post

On Monday, June 8, The Washington Post featured a story about couples who successfully met online. More specifically, how free social network sites like twitter and facebook have become the new matchmaker. One of the couples featured was Tagg's own Michelle Alexander and her fiancé Teresa Dowell-Vest.
June 7, 2014

Google’s Therese Lee Receives Out & Proud Corporate Counsel Award

The National Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Bar Association will present the Out & Proud Corporate Counsel Award to Therese Lee, global ethics and compliance counsel at Google on Thursday, June 5 at a reception in San Francisco.
May 16, 2014

Union Develops Guide to Create Safe, Inclusive Workplaces

The challenges facing transgender people on the job are varied and often misunderstood. Stemming from employees’ experiences and the desire for guidance on how to help them navigate the transition process in the workplace, the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) developed a sample policy to address these critical issues.