Who's Who in the Caucus
The officers and directors of the Caucus (as of June 2004) are:
, AB '74, President - Los Angeles, CA
, AB '75, MBA '72, Vice President - New York, NY
, AB '85, AM '88, PhD '91, Secretary - Hayward, CA
, AB '71, Treasurer - Washington, DC
Elected to the Board for the 2004-2006 term are:
, AB '01 - Chicago, IL
, JD '98 - Berkeley, CA
, EdM '89 - Jamaica Plain, MA
, AB '74 - Los Angeles, CA
, AB '99, JD '03 - New York, NY
Appointed to the Board for the 2004-2005 term is:
Danielle Do, AB '93, JD '98 - New York, NY
Remaining on the Board through 2005 are:
, AB '75, MBA '82 - New York, NY
, Faculty of Arts & Sciences - Cambridge, MA
, Div '97 - Boston, MA
, AB '83 - New Orleans, LA
Ex-Officio Board Members:
, AB '98 - San Francisco, CA
, AB '69, PhD '75 - Cambridge, MA
, AB '86 - Rochester, NY
, AB '71, JD '74 -Cambridge, MA
Board Bios:
Thomas Parry, AB '74, has been an HGLC Board member since 1998 and is serving in his second term as 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 25 years. Professionally, Tom is a consultant in computer games and film distribution and sales. He lives in Los Angeles with his partner, Juan Bastos, a noted artist.
George Byars, AB '75, MBA '82, was born, raised and educated in Cambridge, MA. George has served as a Director of the Harvard Cooperative Society and Vice President of the HBS African-American Student Union. He has been a member of HGLC and HBS GALA (HBS Gay and Lesbian Association) for more than two decades. A long-time supporter of LGBT organizations, George volunteered for many years in New York with SAGE (Senior Action in a Gay Environment). George worked for over ten years in sales and marketing positions with companies such as Wang and IBM, in the Boston area and in New York. From 1992 until last year, he lectured in Marketing and International Business courses at colleges in Singapore, London and Rome, and assisted his partner of 21 years, Michael Spinelle, MBA'83, as HGLC Chapter Coordinator while living in London. George is currently Foundation and Grants Specialist at GLSEN, the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network, in New York City.
Mario E. Inchiosa, AB '85, AM '88, PhD '91, was born in Boston and raised in New Jersey. Following a decade at Harvard, Mario has lived in Munich, San Diego, Boston, and now the San Francisco Bay area. He has been an enthusiastic Caucus member for several years and has been serving as Secretary since June 2004. Mario is also past Treasurer of Asians and Friends Boston and has swum with the DSST and LANES LGBT swim teams in San Diego and Boston. Professionally, Mario is a research scientist and software developer specializing in Physics, Computer Science, and Complexity Science consulting.
Rick Kasten, AB '71, has been database coordinator of HGLC since 2000 and has coordinated the DC-area HGLC group for about 5 years. He graduated from Harvard with a 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 plays and two ballets and is committed to contribute to one of each in 2004.
Alexander A. Boni-Saenz, AB '01, JD '08, was born in Washington, DC, and now resides in Chicago, IL. As an undergraduate, he was co-founder of the LGBT social and educational group BOND and joined the HGLC Board in June 2004. He studied for an M.Sc. in Social Policy at the London School of Economics and now works at the Buehler Center on Aging at Northwestern University, researching elder, disability, health, and end-of-life issues. He returns to Cambridge in Fall 2005 to attend the Law School.
Danielle Do, AB '93, JD '98, is an associate at Weil, Gotshal & Manges. Until 2002, she was based in London, where she was active in the London chapter of the Caucus. Now back in New York, Danielle has been a Caucus board member since October 2003. Danielle's other current commitments include projects to raise the profile of certain GLB artists. In a former life, Danielle was the program director and a grant writer for a non-profit dedicated to improving educational opportunities for underrepresented minorities and women. Danielle lives with her partner, Samantha Sutton, a composer for film and television.
Michael Flier, Ph.D. 1968, Univ. of California, Berkeley, has been the Oleksandr Potebnja Professor of Ukrainian Philology at Harvard since 1991. He is on the Board of Directors of the Caucus. His primary academic affiliations are with the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures (Chair, 1999 to the present), the Department of Linguistics (Chair, 1994-99), and the Ukrainian Research Institute (Acting Director, fall 2001). He lives in Cambridge with his partner, Pat Wright.
Rev. Carol A. Johnson, M.Div. '98, is a member of the Board of Directors for the Caucus. While at Harvard Divinity, she founded both Harvard AIDS Ministries and Harvard's GospelFest in observation of World AIDS Day. In 1991, she was inducted into the 1st Gay and Lesbian Hall of Fame.
Courtney Joslin, JD '98, is a staff attorney at the National Center for Lesbian Rights in San Francisco. While at HLS, Courtney was co-chair of Lambda, the law school's LGBT group. Courtney has been a Caucus board member and local chapter coordinator since June 2004.
Robyn Ochs, Ed.M. '89, has been part of the Harvard community since 1983 and currently works part-time in Romance Languages and Literatures. She is co-facilitator of the monthly LBQ 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 completing a new book: Getting Bi. She has been teaching in the field of gender and sexuality studies at Tufts University since 1992, and she is a professional speaker on bisexuality, identity and labels, coalition building, 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 GLBT people (and she is very serious about ALL of these letters).
Brian Sands, AB '83, lives in New Orleans where he is Co-Theater Editor of Ambush Magazine, the Gulf South's largest GLBT publication (www.ambushmag.com) and on the board of Halloween's in New Orleans. Brian is a founder of HQ83, our class' GLB alumni group. He has been on the Board of Directors since June 2003.
Geoffrey Upton, AB '99, JD '03, is a litigation associate in the New York law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton and Garrison. While at Harvard Law, Geoff was an active member of HLS Lambda, serving as co-historian and as liaison to the Office of Career Services. In his third year, Geoff undertook to write a history of the LGBT experience at Harvard Law, focusing on the founding of Lambda 25 years earlier. Geoff traveled the country, interviewing more than 80 LGBT alumni/ae. In relation to this paper, Geoff helped organize the first-ever LGBT law school alumni reunion event, held in Cambridge in 2003, which reunited the founding members of the student group and dozens of HLS alumni/ae from the past 50 years. As an undergraduate, Geoff concentrated in Social Studies and lived in Leverett House. He was also editorial chair and columnist of The Crimson; with Brian Sands, he helped launch an LGBT Crimson alumni/ae group called BGLTHC in 2003.
Diana Adair, AB '98, is the immediate past Co-Chair of the Board of Directors. As an undergraduate, she founded the BGLTSA Resource Center and co-founded girl spot, an undergraduate group for queer women and friends. She was active in establishing the HGLC Public Service Fellowship for students. She lives in San Francisco and works in public relations.
Warren Goldfarb, A.B. '69, Ph.D '75, is Professor of Philosophy at Harvard and the Chairman of The Open Gate and Board member and Senior Advisor to the Gay & Lesbian Review, Inc. He was Co-Chair of the Caucus from 1997 to June 2001. He is also a member of the Advisory Committee for the BGLTSA Resource Center. Professor Goldfarb lives in Cambridge.
Tom Kelly, AB '86 has been on the HGLC Board of Directors since its inception and recently served as Co-Chair. He is now the Immediate Past President of the Metropolitan Washington Public Health Association. Tom is a senior associate in evaluation at the Annie E. Casey Foundation (www.aecf.org) in Baltimore.
Robert W. Mack, A.B. '71 (Leverett House ), J.D. '74, was a member of the Board of Directors from 1997 to June 2001 and was a Co-Chair of the Caucus from 1994 through 1997. Formerly a Senior Partner of Hale and Dorr, he is now Co-Director of Information Technology there, on a part-time basis. Bob is also a member of the Advisory Committee to the BGLTSA Resource Center at Harvard/Radcliffe. He lives in Cambridge.