Staff
Evan Wolfson | President
Evan Wolfson is Founder and President of Freedom to Marry, the campaign to win marriage nationwide. Evan was co-counsel in the historic Hawaii marriage case that launched the ongoing global movement for the freedom to marry, and has participated in numerous gay rights and HIV/AIDS cases. He earned a B.A. in history from Yale College in 1978, served as a Peace Corps volunteer in a village in Togo, West Africa, and graduated from Harvard Law School in 1983. Citing his national leadership on marriage and his appearance before the U.S. Supreme Court in Boy Scouts of America v. James Dale, the National Law Journal in 2000 names Evan one of "the 100 most influential lawyers in America." In 2004, Evan was named one of the "Time 100," Time magazine's list of "the 100 most influential people in the world." Evan's book, Why Marriage Matters: America, Equality, and Gay People's Right to Marry, was published by Simon & Schuster in July 2004.
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Diana Brockmann | Office Manager
Diana Brockmann is the Office Manager for Freedom to Marry. She comes to this position with a background of 10 years of project management experience that was mostly acquired through her work at various internationally renowned advertising and marketing agencies as well as a position as Board Coordinator at the Human Rights Campaign.
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Regina Clemente | Field Director
Regina comes to Freedom to Marry with over 10 years of political and organizing experience in LGBT, pro-choice, and larger social justice movements. Most recently, she served as Project Director of Vote for Equality, the grassroots organizing and research arm of the LA Gay & Lesbian Center. At VFE, she led the effort to create a model of in-person voter persuasion canvassing now being used throughout the country to move voters to be more supportive of marriage, and in the process helped hone a new form of message research on this critical issue.
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Jeffrey Correa | Development Director
Jeffrey is a seasoned fundraising professional who has worked with a variety of institutions ranging from grassroots non-profits to large public research universities. Most recently Jeffrey has served the University of California, Santa Cruz as the Senior Director of Development for the Division of Physical and Biological Sciences. In this role, Jeffrey significantly enhanced the division’s focus on individual major gifts, resulting in the division’s success in raising $10 million annually.
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Michael Crawford | Director of Online Programs
Michael Crawford is Director of Online Programs at Freedom to Marry where he manages the organization’s websites, email program, online fundraising, and social media presence. He has a wide range of experience in political advocacy, new media, and grassroots organizing. He was a leading strategist for the successful campaign to win freedom to marry in Washington, D.C. with a focus on public education, community outreach, and communications strategy. He was co-founder and co-chair of D.C. for Marriage, a grassroots group that engaged in thousands of conversations with District residents about gay people and marriage with a particular focus on building support in the African-American community.
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Angela Dallara | Communications Associate
Angela Dallara is the Communications Associate at Freedom to Marry. She previously worked as the National News and Transgender Advocacy Fellow at GLAAD (the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation), where she helped ensure fair and accurate portrayals of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people in the media.
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Scott Davenport | Chief Operating Officer
Scott's background is both as a corporate executive and as an activist for LGBT rights. Scott served as a Vice President for Oliver Wyman Consulting assisting Fortune 500 companies enhance their strategic direction. He also has worked for Capital One as Managing Vice President, Human Resources. At Capital One, he led the creation of its Enterprise Risk Management program. Scott is the father of two teenage children and has served as Co-Chair of the Board of the Family Equality Council. He is the co-founder of Family Week in Provincetown, MA., and currently is the Board President for Equality Maryland.
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Jo Deutsch | Federal Director
Jo Deutsch is the Federal Director for Freedom to Marry and oversees the campaign's Washington, D.C.-based work to overturn the so-called "Defense of Marriage Act" and end federal marriage discrimination. Jo's political career and activism began at 13 when she joined the National Organization for Women in Miami, Florida. Since then, she has dedicated both her personal and professional life to fighting for equality and rights for women, the LGBT community and the labor movement. Combining all her passions, Jo fought for the rights of working women and men including LGBT members while leading the federal legislative and political campaigns at the Association of Flight Attendants, and the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, and the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union.
Sean Eldridge | Senior Advisor
Sean Eldridge is an investor and political activist. He is President of Hudson River Ventures and a Senior Advisor at Freedom to Marry. Sean joined Freedom to Marry in 2010, serving initially as Communications Director and then as Political Director, a role in which he was instrumental in winning the freedom to marry to New York. As a spokesperson for Freedom to Marry, he has made the case for marriage in numerous media outlets, including Fox News, MSNBC, and CNN.
Sarah Moeller | Development Associate
Sarah is the Development Associate for Freedom to Marry. She has worked on several progressive, issue-based campaigns at the county, state, and federal levels as a community organizer. Using various tactics, she mobilized people to influence policies concerning the environment, higher education funding, government transparency, and consumer protection.
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Marc Solomon | National Campaign Director
Marc Solomon joined Freedom to Marry after serving as executive director of MassEquality. Solomon led the campaign to defeat two constitutional amendments in the first freedom to marry state in the nation, beating back attacks by the Catholic Church, President George W. Bush, Gov. Mitt Romney, and the right-wing anti-gay industry. Following the victory in Massachusetts, Solomon consulted with state-wide equality organizations in Connecticut and Vermont as well as Freedom to Marry, as part of the nationwide effort to end marriage discrimination.
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Cameron Tolle | Online Campaign Manager
Cameron Tolle is the Online Campaign Manager for Freedom to Marry. He brings an extensive background of field and online organizing experience to the organization, including work on LGBT and marriage campaigns in Maine, Maryland, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, and Rhode Island. In his role as Online Campaign Manager, Cameron maintains the organization's social media presence, identifies key opportunities to engage supporters in online and offline action, and provides strategic consulting to state partners in legislative and ballot campaigns.
Jackie Yodashkin | Communications Director
Jackie Yodashkin is the Communications Director for Freedom to Marry. She brings a range of media relations and communications experience to the organization. As a Public Information Officer for Lambda Legal, Jackie worked on a variety of LGBT rights issues, including the lawsuit that won the freedom to marry in Iowa.
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Thalia Zepatos | Director of Public Engagement
Thalia Zepatos has been fighting anti-LGBT ballot measures in her home state of Oregon since 1988, and has subsequently been involved in fighting dozens of other anti-gay measures in communities across the US.In 2004, when a wave of Constitutional amendments banning same-sex marriage were placed on the ballots of states across the country, she joined the staff of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. While serving as Director of the Organizing and Training Dept of the Task Force, Thalia played a key role in Let California Ring, a statewide public education campaign aimed at opening hearts and minds on the issue of marriage equality. She also was a consultant for the National Collaborative, where she worked with state and national leaders on winning marriage equality.
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Evan Wolfson
Evan Wolfson is founder and President of Freedom to Marry, the campaign to win marriage nationwide. Before founding Freedom to Marry, Evan served as marriage project director for Lambda Legal Defense & Education Fund, was co-counsel in the historic Hawaii marriage case, and participated in numerous gay rights and HIV/AIDS cases.
Born in Brooklyn and raised in Pittsburgh, Evan graduated from Yale College in 1978. For two years, he served as a Peace Corps volunteer in a village in Togo, West Africa. After graduating from Harvard Law School in 1983 and teaching political philosophy at Harvard College, Evan served as assistant district attorney for Kings County (Brooklyn). There, in addition to handling felony trials and appeals, he wrote amicus briefs that helped win the U.S. Supreme Court's ban on race discrimination in jury selection (Batson v. Kentucky), and the New York State high court's elimination of the marital rape exemption (People v. Liberta).
Citing his national leadership on marriage and his appearance before the U.S. Supreme Court in Boy Scouts of America v. James Dale, the National Law Journal in 2000 named Evan one of "the 100 most influential lawyers in America." In 2004, Evan was named one of the "Time 100," Time magazine's list of "the 100 most influential people in the world."
Evan Wolfson’s book, Why Marriage Matters: America, Equality, and Gay People's Right to Marry, was published by Simon & Schuster in July 2004.
Email Evan Wolfson at evan [at] freedomtomarry.org.
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Diana Brockmann
Diana Brockmann is the Office Manager for Freedom to Marry. She comes to this position with a background of 10 years of project management experience that was mostly acquired through her work at various internationally renowned advertising and marketing agencies. In 2002, Diana pursued her Masters in Sociology at American University in Washington, DC.
During her studies at American, she interned at the Human Rights Campaign and after graduation was hired on full-time as the Board Coordinator. In this position, she coordinated and organized annual board meetings and related events for up to 500 attendees. After working for corporate America, Diana decided to return to the nonprofit world so that she could use her knowledge and skills to continue working towards equal rights for the LGBT community.
Born in Nicaragua, Diana immigrated to the US with her family as a young child and is fluent in Spanish. She and her wife, Sako, live on Manhattan's Upper East Side.
Email Diana at diana [at] freedomtomarry.org.
Regina Clemente
Regina comes to Freedom to Marry with over 10 years of political and organizing experience in LGBT, pro-choice, and larger social justice movements. Most recently, she served as Project Director of Vote for Equality, the grassroots organizing and research arm of the LA Gay & Lesbian Center. At VFE, she led the effort to create a model of in-person voter persuasion canvassing now being used throughout the country to move voters to be more supportive of marriage, and in the process helped hone a new form of message research on this critical issue.
Prior to this work at VFE, Regina was a Regional Field Director on the No on Prop 8 campaign, where she led a team of organizers that recruited and worked alongside thousands of volunteers. At Planned Parenthood Los Angeles she worked as a Public Affairs Manager, where she helped build and lead field teams on choice-related ballot measures and for pro-choice candidate campaigns in states including California, South Dakota, Nevada, and Ohio. She joined PP after several years of organizing with ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now). Regina is a native of Los Angeles, and will soon be relocating to Portland, Oregon with her cat Dashiell.
Email Regina at regina [at] freedomtomarry.org.
Jeffrey Correa
Jeffrey Correa is a seasoned fundraising professional who has worked with a variety of institutions ranging from grassroots non-profits to large public research universities. Most recently Jeffrey has served the University of California, Santa Cruz as the Senior Director of Development for the Division of Physical and Biological Sciences. In this role, Jeffrey significantly enhanced the division’s focus on individual major gifts, resulting in the division’s success in raising $10 million annually.
His first fundraising role was with the Nebraska AIDS Project followed by the Monterey County AIDS Project. In 2001 Jeffrey became the Director of Development and Marketing for Second Harvest Food Bank of Santa Cruz County followed by a two year stint as Development Director at the Ronald McDonald House at Stanford in Palo Alto, CA where he raised significant funds to support the families of children receiving treatment at the Lucille Packard Children’s Hospital.
Before his career in development, Jeffrey left home after graduating high school to serve for six years as an Arabic linguist in the US Air Force. Jeffrey ended his Air Force career as a highly decorated linguist because he could no longer serve under the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy that required servicemembers to lie about who they are in order to serve the country they love. In 2010, Jeffrey was part of a group of LGBT veterans who traveled to Washington DC to lobby Congress and meet with Pentagon officials working on the repeal of DADT. Jeffrey also organized awareness events and outreach campaigns in California, which supported the nation-wide repeal effort. Because of this coordinated effort, President Obama signed the “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell Repeal Act” on December 22, 2010.
In 2008 Jeffrey married his husband, Jean-Pierre Correa, at a mountaintop winery overlooking the Monterey Bay. In 2006 they founded and began operating Vinocruz, an independent wine shop and tasting room in Santa Cruz, CA that has been featured in the Wall Street Journal. Jeffrey and J-P share a passion for food and wine and are the proud parents of three dogs.
Michael Crawford
Michael Crawford is Director of Online Programs at Freedom to Marry where he manages the organization’s websites, email program, online fundraising, and social media presence. He has a wide range of experience in political advocacy, new media, and grassroots organizing. He was a leading strategist for the successful campaign to win freedom to marry in Washington, D.C. with a focus on public education, community outreach, and communications strategy. He was co-founder and co-chair of D.C. for Marriage, a grassroots group that engaged in thousands of conversations with District residents about gay people and marriage with a particular focus on building support in the African-American community.
Michael served as Associate Field Director at Human Rights Campaign where he specialized in developing field and legislative strategies to advance pro-LGBT legislation at the state and federal levels and building support for endorsed candidates. As Communications Director at Energy Action Coalition, a coalition of youth and student organizations building a clean energy movement, Michael developed media strategies to tell the stories of young people against man-made global warming. He also served as Online Director for Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.
Michael was an organizer of the 2000 Millennium March on Washington for LGBT Equal Rights, which brought together more than 750,000 advocates for LGBT equality. He is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board for http://www.bilerico.com/, one of the top sites covering LGBT politics and culture and a blogger for the Huffington Post.
Michael was named as one of The Advocate Magazine's 2009 People of the Year and one of The Washington Blade’s Ten People Who Make Us Proud. He was awarded the Gay & Lesbian Activists Alliance Distinguished Service Award in 2010 for his work to win marriage in Washington, D.C.
Email Michael Crawford at michael [at] freedomtomarry.org.
Angela Dallara
Angela Dallara is the Communications Associate at Freedom to Marry. She previously worked as the National News and Transgender Advocacy Fellow at GLAAD (the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation), where she helped ensure fair and accurate portrayals of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people in the media. She worked also as the Women's History Associate at Women's eNews, where she spearheaded a women's history walking tour in downtown Manhattan. In her current position, she works to increase Freedom to Marry's presence in print, online, and Spanish-language media outlets.
Angela graduated in 2010 from the State University of New York at Geneseo with a BA in Political Science and concentrations in Women's Studies and Africana Studies. She is originally from Queens, NY and now lives in Brooklyn.
Email Angela at angela [at] freedomtomarry.org.
Scott Davenport
Scott's background is both as a corporate executive and as an activist for LGBT rights. Scott served as a Vice President for Oliver Wyman Consulting assisting Fortune 500 companies enhance their strategic direction. He also has worked for Capital One as Managing Vice President, Human Resources. At Capital One, he led the creation of its Enterprise Risk Management program. Scott is the father of two teenage children and has served as Co-Chair of the Board of the Family Equality Council. He is the co-founder of Family Week in Provincetown, MA., and currently is the Board President for Equality Maryland.
Email Scott Davenport at scott [at] freedomtomarry.org.
Jo Deutsch
Jo Deutsch is the Federal Director for Freedom to Marry and oversees the campaign's Washington, D.C.-based work to overturn the so-called "Defense of Marriage Act" and end federal marriage discrimination. Jo's political career and activism began at 13 when she joined the National Organization for Women in Miami, Florida. Since then, she has dedicated both her personal and professional life to fighting for equality and rights for women, the LGBT community and the labor movement. Combining all her passions, Jo fought for the rights of working women and men including LGBT members while leading the federal legislative and political campaigns at the Association of Flight Attendants, the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees and the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union.
Jo lives in Maryland with her partner of 28 years and their three children.
Email Jo Deutsch at jo [at] freedomtomarry.org.
Sean Eldridge
Sean Eldridge is an investor and political activist. He is the President of Hudson River Ventures and a Senior Advisor at Freedom to Marry. Sean joined Freedom to Marry in 2010, serving initially as Communications director and then as Political Director, a role in which he was instrumental in winning the freedom to marry to New York. As a spokesperson for Freedom to Marry, he has made the case for marriage in numerous media outlets, including Fox News, MSNBC, and CNN.
Sean resides Garrison, NY with his partner Chris Hughes, a co-founder of Facebook. Sean and Chris support progressive organizations and candidates across the country, and together they founded the Telos Foundation in 2011. They were featured on the cover of The Advocate's Forty under 40 issue in May 2011, honoring forty LGBT "leaders and newsmakers" under the age of 40.
Sean serves on the board of directors of Scenic Hudson, the largest environmental group focused on the Hudson River Valley, and GLAD (Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders), a legal organization dedicated to LGBT rights. Before joining Before joining Freedom to Marry, Sean served as a youth organizer for Barack Obama's Presidential campaign and was one of the early architects of the campaign's national student movement.
Sean received his B.A. in Political Philosophy from Brown University and also studied at Deep Springs College and Columbia Law School.
Email Sean Eldridge at sean [at] freedomtomarry.org.
Sarah Moeller
Sarah is the Development Associate for Freedom to Marry. She has worked on several progressive, issue-based campaigns at the county, state, and federal levels as a community organizer. Using various tactics, she mobilized people to influence policies concerning the environment, higher education funding, government transparency, and consumer protection.
As a Community Outreach Director at New York Public Interest Research Group, she also ran grassroots public education campaigns throughout downstate New York to raise awareness and demonstrate increasing support for comprehensive action on climate change.
Email Sarah Moeller at sarah [at] freedomtomarry.org.
Marc Solomon
Marc Solomon joined Freedom to Marry after serving as executive director of MassEquality. Solomon led the campaign to defeat two constitutional amendments in the first freedom to marry state in the nation, beating back attacks by the Catholic Church, President George W. Bush, Gov. Mitt Romney, and the right-wing anti-gay industry. Following the victory in Massachusetts, Solomon consulted with state-wide equality organizations in Connecticut and Vermont as well as Freedom to Marry, as part of the nationwide effort to end marriage discrimination.
Most recently, Marc served as marriage director of Equality California, Solomon led the largest state effort in movement history to make the case for marriage equality through face-to-face conversations. In that campaign, EQCA field organizers and coalition partners organized hundreds of thousands of conversations at people’s doors, moved 26 percent of opponents with whom they spoke to be significantly more supportive, and helped grow public support for the freedom to marry in California from 44 percent to 50 percent. Under Solomon’s leadership, EQCA placed special focus on building support in communities of color.
Solomon has extensive background in advocacy, public policy, and media, having served as a Senate policy adviser in Washington, D.C. and researcher for Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward. In May 2009, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick presented Marc with the Massachusetts Democratic Party’s prestigious Franklin Delano Roosevelt Award, given each year to someone who espouses FDR’s ideals “with respect to democracy, justice, individual freedoms, and citizenship.”
Solomon graduated Magna Cum Laude with Honors in Political Science and Economics from Yale University and holds a Master’s in Public Administration from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. In 1999, the Rockefeller Foundation named Solomon as one of 24 of America’s next generation leaders and invited him to participate in its prestigious two-year Next Generation Leadership fellowship program.
Email Marc Solomon at marc [at] freedomtomarry.org.
Cameron Tolle
Cameron Tolle is the Online Campaign Manager for Freedom to Marry. He brings an extensive background of field and online organizing experience to the organization, including LGBT and marriage campaigns in Maine, Maryland, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, and Rhode Island. In his role as Online Campaign Manager, Cameron maintains the organization’s social media presence, identifies key opportunities to engage supporters in online and offline action, and provides strategic consulting to state partners in legislative and ballot campaigns.
Cameron is a native of Kansas City, Missouri. He graduated cum laude from Xavier University with an Honors BA in Philosophy, Politics, & the Public and an emphasis in Gender & Diversity studies.
Email Cameron Tolle at cameron [at] freedomtomarry.org.
Jackie Yodashkin
Jackie Yodashkin is the Communications Director for Freedom to Marry. She brings a range of media relations and communications experience to the organization. As a Public Information Officer for Lambda Legal, Jackie worked on a variety of LGBT rights issues, including the lawsuit that won the freedom to marry in Iowa.
While serving on the Business Development team at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, she contributed pro bono media relations support to Election Protection, the nation's most ambitious non-partisan program for preventing Election Day disenfranchisement.
Jackie graduated with a BA in Gender and Sexuality Studies from New York University.
Email Jackie Yodashkin at jackie [at] freedomtomarry.org.
Thalia Zepatos
Thalia Zepatos has thirty years’ experience as a community organizer, campaign manager and political consultant, focusing on building political power for underrepresented communities.
She has recruited and trained candidates across the West and played key roles in defeating anti-choice ballot measures in several states. She has been fighting anti-LGBT ballot measures in her home state of Oregon since 1988, and has subsequently been involved in fighting dozens of other anti-gay measures in communities across the US.
In 2004, when a wave of Constitutional amendments banning same-sex marriage were placed on the ballots of states across the country, she joined the staff of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. While serving as Director of the Organizing and Training Dept of the Task Force, Thalia played a key role in Let California Ring, a statewide public education campaign aimed at opening hearts and minds on the issue of marriage equality. She also was a consultant for the National Collaborative, a national coalition of gay rights organizations, and worked with assisting states on winning marriage equality.
Zepatos is the co-author of Women for a Change: A Grassroots Guide to Activism and Politics and is the author of two travel books for women. She lives in Portland, Oregon with her husband, Mike.
Email Thalia Zepatos at thalia [at] freedomtomarry.org.