LEGAL WORK & MEDIA

News Coverage
Latest Coverage:
  • CNN, "Anti-trans bathroom ordinance repealed in Oxford, Alabama" (Link)
  • Charlotte News & Observer, "When Bathrooms Become a Civil Rights Battleground" (Link)
  • WIAT, "Oxford City Council Rescinds Restroom Ordinance" (Link)
  • NPR, "Feds Investigate GA Corrections' Treatment of LGBT Inmates" (Link) 
​​Previous Coverage:
  • ​Atlanta Journal Constitution, "Civil Rights Lawsuit Filed to Protect Transgender Prisoner" (Link)
  • NYTimes, "Transgender Woman Cites Attacks and Abuse in Men’s Prison" (Link)
  • NYTimes, "Transgender Inmate’s Hormone Treatment Lawsuit Gets Justice Dept. Backing" (Link)
  • NYTimes, "Georgia Says It Will Allow Hormones for Transgender Inmates" (Link)
  • NYTimes, "Transgender Inmate Who Sued Georgia Gets Unexpected Parole" (Link)
  • NYTimes, "State to Pay Transgender Inmate" (Link)
  • NPR, "Lawsuit Prompts Policy Change For Transgender Inmates" (Link)
  • NPR, "Justice Dept. Weighs In On Georgia Transgender Inmate Lawsuit" (Link)
  • NPR, "Lawyers: Transgender Inmate Still Faces Harm In Georgia Prison" (Link)
  • NPR, "Transgender Inmate Ashley Diamond Released from Georgia Prison" (Link)
  • NPR, "Transgender Parolee Ashley Diamond Faces Uncertain Future" (Link)
  • NPR, "Released Transgender Inmate Settles With Ga. Prison Officials" (Link)
  • Buzzfeed, "Trans Woman Settles Suit After Being Denied Hormones In Prison" (Link)
  • Georgia Public Broadcasting Channel, "Ashley Diamond" (Link)
  • The Guardian, "The silence on abuse of transgender inmates in US prisons is deafening " (Link)
  • The Guardian, "DoJ says inmates' gender dysphoria should be given treatment in prison" (Link)
  • ​New York Daily News, "Transgender inmate sues Georgia seeking to end 'gross human rights violations' in prisons" (Link)
  • New York Daily News, "Transgender inmate paroled early from Georgia prison after suing for hormone therapy, safe environment" (Link)
  • NBC 11 Alive, "Transgender woman: I was raped, mistreated in Georgia prison" (Link)
  • Al Jazeera America, "Trans Woman Discusses Life in All-Male Prison After Release" (Link)
  • Al Jazeera America,  "Transgender Former Inmate Settles with Prison Officials"(Link)
  • The Advocate, "After Three Years Jailed With Men, Ashley Diamond Speaks" (Link)
  • The Advocate , "Trans Woman Ashley Diamond Reaches Settlement with Ga. Dept. of Corrections" (Link)
  • Reuters, "Georgia Settles Lawsuit Over Hormone Therapy for Transgender Inmate" (Link)
  • The Independent, "Black transgender Woman Delivers Emotional Interview about Her Abuse in Prison" (Link)
  • Australia Broadcasting Channel, "Transgender & Prison" (Link) 

Speaking Engagements
  • Commentator, MSNBC, The Melissa Harris-Perry Show (Link)
  • Commentator, MSNBC, Seema Iyer's The Docket (Link)
  • Commentator, Huffington Post Live (Link)
  • Presenter, Duke Law School Conference on the Present and Future of Civil Rights Movements, Plenary on Developments and Ongoing Challenges for LGBTQ Communities (Link)
  • Lecturer, Columbia Law School, LGBT Rights After Marriage: What's Left?
  • Presenter, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin
  • Presenter, Alabama State University, Symposium on Being Black & LGBTQ
  • Presenter, LGBT* in the South, Dismantling the Discrimination to Incarceration Pipeline for Transgender People of Color
  • Presenter, Lavender Law, Pro Bono Partnerships
  • Presenter, Lavender Law, Update on Legal and Human Rights Developments Affecting the Intersex Community
  • Presenter, Transgender Law Symposium, Updates in Employment Law

Awards & Honors

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Publications
  • ​Deconstructing the Body: Transgender and Intersex Identities and Sex Discrimination—The Need for Strict Scrutiny, 20 COLUM. J. GENDER & L. 141 (2011) (Link)
  • Discourses on Self, Work and Globalization among Kenyan Apparel Workers, 6 YALE J. SOC. 6 (2006) (Link)