About Us

Rhonda has been a member of the Caucus for many years and was elected to the Board in June 2006. During her undergraduate years, Rhonda had leadership positions in several gay and lesbian organizations that have morphed into the current QSA. During the '80s and '90s she lobbied for workplace benefits for same-sex couples. She is a compiler writer and currently works for a small software company. Rhonda also serves on the Board of The Open Gate.

Michael is a native New Yorker.  The only extended period he has been away from New York was the three years he spent at Harvard Law School.  In 1991, after practicing law for 20 years, Michael was appointed to the bench.  He is currently an Acting Justice of the NY Supreme Court in the Criminal Term in Manhattan.  Michael has been involved in Harvard alumni activities of various sorts since graduation.  A founder of the NY LGBT alumni group in 1980, he serves as the NYC co-coordinator for the Caucus.  He was also a member of the Law School Association’s Council and Executive Committee and a founder of the LGBT Alumni Committee.  Michael is president of NY’s Association of Lesbian & Gay Judges and a past president of the International Association of Lesbian & Gay Judges.  He has also served as secretary of the NYC Bar Association, and is currently a member of the NY State Bar Association’s House of Delegates as well as the Executive Council of the NY Network of Bar Leaders.

Originally from Texas, Bruce has been a Caucus member since 2005 and started serving as Secretary in October 2009. He is presently doing his graduate work here at Harvard in the field of landscape architecture. Before coming to Harvard, Bruce studied architecture and landscape design in Helsinki, Finland and was an architectural intern for architect and former Harvard professor Moshe Safdie. He currently works on campus as the Art and Manuscript Collections Coordinator and Web Content Manager for the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. A former college cheerleader, Bruce has also served on the Board of Directors of Cheer Dallas, a non-profit gay and lesbian collegiate style cheer team who's "Cheer for the Cure" program raised awareness and funds in the fight against HIV/AIDS, breast cancer, and juvenile diabetes. While on the squad, Cheer Dallas became the first LGBT team to be recognized by the National Cheerleading Association (NCA) and to compete in its Nationals Open Division category. Bruce resides in Boston.

Rick has been membership coordinator of HGLC since 2000 and treasurer since 2004. He graduated from Harvard with an AB in economics in 1971 and then spent the next 4 years down the street getting a PhD from MIT. He spent 25 years as an economist in DC, first at the US Dept of Health and Human Services and then at the Congressional Budget Office. His area of expertise started off as welfare reform, switched to Social Security, and ended up as federal taxation. He retired in 2000 as the Deputy Assistant Director of CBO for revenue forecasting. He can frequently be seen attending theater and dance events in the DC area. Since retiring, he has been a major contributor to the production of three ballets and many plays.

Nat was elected to the HGLC Board in 2006.   He served in the US Navy for 3 years, including 16 months in Vietnam, following graduation from college.  He has worked as a manager at Massachusetts General Hospital, from 1976 to 1987, and, since then, in the MassHealth (Medicaid) health insurance program in the Massachusetts state government.  He has been an active alumnus of Phillips Exeter Academy, in New Hampshire, as an advocate for gays and lesbians in that community.  He is also a member of the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network (SLDN), which seeks to repeal the “don’t ask, don’t tell” law.

Juan Jaime lives in Jamaica Plain, MA, and enjoys his 5 minute walk to work as a primary care doctor at a community health center, where 2/3 of his patients are Spanish speaking. He has been the Cambridge/Boston Chapter co-director with Rebecca Dornin for several years, has already served as the chair of the Annual Dinner and is a first time elected-Director. Originally from Puerto Rico and then New York, Juan Jaime graduated from Harvard College and the Medical School. After a few years in the Navy, he came back to Boston where he occasionally teaches at the Med School, is a non-resident Pre-med tutor at Lowell House, works in LGBT affairs at Brigham and Women's Hospital and is also on the board of Earthen Vessals, a program that works with urban youth.

Winsome resides in Washington, DC, and works as an appellate attorney for the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia. In law school, she was active in HLS Lambda, where she assisted with fundraising for the marriage conference. She was also active in a number of other student civil rights organizations, including the Black Law Students Association, the Civil Rights - Civil Liberties Law Review and the Civil Liberties Association. Winsome has been an LGBT rights activist since her first year at Rutgers College (BA 1995). While at Rutgers, Winsome co-founded a women's activist group, Lesbian and Bisexual Women in Action (LABIA). As the president of LABIA, Winsome conducted a program on being out in the workforce, participated in several student rights initiatives, and conducted a number of LGBT outreach programs. Winsome was elected for the position of Vice President of the Rutgers Student Governing Association, for which she campaigned as an out lesbian. She believes that LGBT issues, race, class, and gender are interconnected.

Warren Goldfarb, AB '69, PhD '75, is the W.B. Pearson Professor of Modern Mathematics and Mathematical Logic, in the Philosophy Department at Harvard. He is one of the founders of the Harvard Gay & Lesbian Caucus, was an HGLC Director for many years and continues as an ex-officio Director. Additionally, Warren has been the President of The Open Gate since its inception in 1986 and is a Board member of The Gay & Lesbian Review / Worldwide. He lives in Cambridge.

Bob was a member of the HGLC Board of Directors from 1997 to 2001, and was Co-Chair of the Caucus from 1994 to 1997; he is currently an Ex-Officio Member of the Board. He worked at Hale and Dorr (now WilmerHale ) for 31 years, as a lawyer for 15 years and subsequently in Information Technology. He also co-founded FreshAddress.com and created MemDir.org . He is currently an independent video producer. He lives in Cambridge .

Susan Marine, Ph.D. is Assistant Dean of Harvard College for Student Life and Director of the Harvard College Women's Center. She was elected to the board in 2009. Susan has 15 years experience developing and leading initiatives in higher education for the advancement of women and gender non-conforming students, with additional expertise in student leadership development, violence prevention, and advocacy for the LGBT community. Susan teaches courses in WGS, and in the Connell School of Nursing at Boston College, and her research interests include feminist praxis in higher education, transgender politics, identity, and agency, the construction of alternative masculinities, and the history and future of American Women's Colleges. Susan's dissertation, "Navigating Discourses of Discomfort: Women's College Student Affairs Administrators and Transgender Students" received a David and Myra Sadker Foundation Dissertation award in 2009.

Timothy Patrick McCarthy '93 is Lecturer on History and Literature, Adjunct Lecturer on Public Policy, and Core Faculty and Director of the Human Rights and Social Movements Program at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University. After graduating with honors from Harvard, he received his M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. in History from Columbia. An historian of social movements, Dr. McCarthy has published three books--The Radical Reader: A Documentary History of the American Radical Tradition (New Press, 2003); Prophets of Protest: Reconsidering the History of American Abolitionism (New Press, 2006); and Protest Nation: Words That Inspired a Century of American Radicalism (New Press, 2010)--and his fourth, Stonewall's Children: Life, Loss, and Love after Liberation, will be published next spring. Dr. McCarthy is an award-winning teacher and advisor whose courses are consistently among the most popular and highly rated at Harvard. In addition to his work as a scholar and teacher, Dr. McCarthy is a devoted public servant and political activist. A national leader in the LGBT community, Dr. McCarthy was a founding member of Barack Obama’s National LGBT Leadership Council, has given expert testimony to the Pentagon Comprehensive Working Group on the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” serves on the advisory board of the Harvey Milk Foundation, and is lead research collaborator and founding board member for Face Value, a new organization dedicated to eradicating social and cultural stigma against LGBT people. In April 2009, he delivered Harvard’s prestigious Nicholas Papadopoulos Lecture. Dr. McCarthy was just elected to his third term on the HGLC Board, and also currently serves as the Vice President for the College Cluster of the Harvard Alumni Association. He lives in Quincy House with his fiance, C.J. Crowder, Ed.M '02.

Robyn, www.robynochs.com , has been part of the Harvard community since 1983. She retired from her work in Romance Languages and Literatures in 2009. She was on the steering committee for the LGBT Faculty & Staff Group and was a co-facilitator of the monthly LBTQ Women's lunches for Harvard staff and faculty. Off campus, she is co-founder of the Bisexual Resource Center and the Boston Bisexual Women's Network. She is editor of a new book, Getting Bi: Voices of Bisexuals Around the World http://www.biresource.org/249. She has taught in the field of gender and sexuality studies at Tufts University, MIT, and Johnson State College in Vermont, and she is a professional speaker on bisexuality, identity and labels, coalition building, marriage equality, and homophobia. She is particularly interested in increasing HGLC's role and visibility at Harvard, in strengthening gender and sexuality studies at Harvard, in working with current Harvard undergraduate students, and in continuing to make Harvard a safer and more welcoming place for LGBT people (and she is very serious about ALL of these letters).

Tom has been an HGLC Board member since 1998 and is a former president of the Caucus. He is also on the Board of Directors of the Gay & Lesbian Review and in 1995 became the first openly gay Elected Director of the Harvard Alumni Association. Tom has been volunteering for Harvard for the past 30 years. Professionally, Tom is a consultant in computer games and he lives in Los Angeles with his husband, Juan Bastos, a noted portrait artist.

Steve graduated from Harvard in 2007 with an AB in the History of Art and Architecture. Since graduating he has performed research for an internationally recognized contemporary art exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, assisted a world-renowned collection of French drawings and now finally makes art instead of studying it. Steve works as a graphic designer/front-end engineer for the high-tech start-up, SCVNGR. Steve recently relocated to Zurich, Switzerland with his partner Israel Meir (Ext. '03).

Brian Sands lives in the French Quarter of New Orleans where he is Co-Theater/Performing Arts Editor of Ambush Magazine, the Gulf South's largest GLBT publication (www.ambushmag.com), and Literary Manager for Southern Rep Theater (www.southernrep.com). He is also an award-winning playwright and is among the contributors to "Love, Bourbon Street" which received the 2007 Lambda Literary Award for Best Anthology. Brian is a founder of HQ83, our class' GLB alumni group. He served on the HGLC Board of Directors 2003-2005 during which time he edited the E-Newsletter and helped to coordinate GLBT Reunions. He hopes everyone reading this will come visit the slowly-but-surely recovering New Orleans for Mardi Gras, Halloween, Southern Decadence or, well, any time at all!

Ryan Thoreson graduated from Harvard in 2007 with a joint concentration in Government and Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality. As an undergraduate, Ryan was a co-chair of the BGLTSA and co-coordinator of the Resource Center. He is currently focusing on transnational campaigns to secure rights and recognition for sexual minorities as a doctoral candidate in Social Anthropology at Oxford, and frequently writes about sexuality and progressive politics.