Interim National Governing Board

Tanner Efinger was raised in Andover, Massachusetts with his two brothers, Nathan and Trevor. After attending Phillips Academy Andover he moved to New York City where he soon dropped out of college to pursue a career in improvisational theatre and writing. He moved to Los Angeles in August of 2006 where he became political after the passage of California’s Proposition 8. Since then he founded the Postcards to the President Campaign, joined the Equal Roots Coalition as their Director of Political Action and organized for the National Equality March on the Executive Committee.

Ann Coleman is an architect and LGBT activist currently living in Boston, MA. As a US military dependent, she lived in many parts of the country and overseas spending many of her formative and coming out years in the Midwest. Her first taste of activism was the 1997 Chicago Pride Parade where activists exposed the discrimination of the Don’t Ask Don’t Tell policy in the military. After college she moved to Seattle where she expanded her activism to environmental, social, and economic justice including anti-death penalty work, the demonstration against the World Trade Organization in Seattle (1999), and marriage equality in the state of Washington. Since moving to Boston in 2005, she continues her professional work restoring and repairing public buildings and historic structures and her grassroots activism through anti-war and LGBT civil rights organizing.

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Sherry Wolf, author, Sexuality and Socialism: History, Politics and Theory of LGBT Liberation (2009), is a long-time activist, organizer and writer who served on the executive committee of the National Equality March. Wolf has been active in social and economic justice struggles since the 1980s as a member of the International Socialist Organization and is a popular public speaker on campuses and radio. Her writings appear in the Nation, Counterpunch, Znet, SocialistWorker.org, MRZine, Dissident Voice, New Politics and the International Socialist Review.

Rev. Donna Tara Lee has been a Transgender activist since she came out 10 years ago and had GRS Feb., 2001. Since that time Ms. Lee has worked tirelessly not only for the Transgender community but also for the GLBT community as a whole. Ms. Lee is a member and area director for the Fl. state GLBT Democratic Caucus, the same for StandupFl. She was a organizer for the NEM, a member of ISO and is currently a member of INGB also. She occasionally is a guest columnist for the Bilerico Blog, Fl and for the Socialist Worker on-line newspaper. Ms. Lee has done many workshops on GLBT issues and did a transgender workshop as part of the NEM weekend.

Aiyi'nah Ford believes her involvement with equal rights began when she was born as an African American lesbian. Aside from what you've read in the headlines, Aiyi'nah Ford is a creative expressionist of the lesbian experience. Not just "The Tastee Diner Girl" she initially gained notoriety as a renowned spoken word artist, thespian and radio host. Known to her listening audience as SimplyNay, Ford co-hosts the blog radio show Listen UP Live with Jay "Jamorr” Morrow. Listen Up Live provides a forum for people in the LGBTQI community to talk about what is important to them. Only in her early twenties, she is also the owner of her own event planning company as well as the founder of the Lifestyle Power Players, the first member's only social club for LGBTQI professionals. Since the protest, she has worked diligently to promote the equal treatment of all people. Her most recent efforts include serving as a local organizer with Full Equality Now DC!, speaking publically on important LGBTQI issues and now serving as a member of the Interim National Governing Board of Equality Across America.

Nik Maciejewski was born and raised in the suburbs of Chicago, and believes that the LGBTQ struggle for legal equality, social acceptance and peace of mind is in a place to finally really win.  The voices of the masses inspired Nik and friends Corrine Mina and Missy Lorenzen to start the Chicago based activist group Join the Impact Chicago after the protests against Proposition 8.  Since then, he's grown and cherished the opportunity to take a place in a fight that has been persevering since human society went down the path of homophobia, fear and discrimination.  Nik aims to find new ways to connect people and movements, and hopes that the current visibility of LGBTQ activism will motivate other individuals and communities to fight actively to end oppression in all arenas.

Seth Fowler served on the Executive Committee for the National Equality March.  He is an organizer with One Struggle One Fight, a San Francisco-based direct action grassroots organization aimed at highlighting the intersection of LGBT issues with other social and economic struggles. As part of the wave of Stonewall 2.0 activists, he has helped plan and participated in a 100-mile march from San Francisco to Sacramento, mass civil disobedience in response to the CA Supreme Court's Prop 8 decision, homeless queer youth advocacy within San Francisco's Castro district, and many other local and state initiatives.  Prior to moving to San Francisco he was known for horseback riding across Mongolia. He graduated from Carleton College in 2007 with a degree in International Relations.

Chloe Michelle Noble is the founder of PrideWalk2009 and Operation Shine (www.pridewalk2009.org); where she and Jill Hardman completed a 6000 mile, 8 month long journey across America and back again, to raise awareness of the homeless LGBTQI youth epidemic in the United States. (Much of their journey was on foot.) Chloe is also the founder of Operation Shine America, a nonprofit organization that continues to raise awareness of the homeless youth epidemic, by building positive bridges between communities, and teaching them how to become mutual mentors, in a process that inspires and empowers the public through personal, local, and national activism. She was the main organizer of the twelve IMPACT youth events for the National Equality March; and was able to speak at the march on behalf of homeless LGBTQI youth. She is currently enrolled in the Utah Pride Center Affiliation Program and will be participating in a Harvard University Extension Program in the Fall. Like many LGBTQI activists today, her passion for Human Rights is intense and extremely contagious.

Wayne Ting was the national chair of travel and accommodations for the National Equality March. Previously, he served as the national LGBT caucus chair and communications director of College Democrats of America. He has served on the board of the Out for Undergraduate Business Conference (OUBC) and Columbia College Young Alumni Association. In 2007,

Wayne was named one of

The Advocate magazine's future leaders. Wayne graduated from Columbia University in 2006 with a BA in political science. He currently lives in New York City with his partner of 4years.

Chelsea Salem is one of the community activists called into action following the passing of prop 8 in California. Born and raised in Orange County, CA, the most important thing in Chelsea's life is her family, including all of her queer and allied brothers and sisters in the fight for equality. Chelsea is also a contemporary dancer and writer.