Moderators

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  Naomi Walker

  ITVS, National Engagement Consultant

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  Desiree Gutierrez

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  Daniel

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  Renée Gasch

Participants

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  Thomas G. Miller (in-person panelist)

  Panelist

  Producer/Director/Writer/Editor - Limited Partnership Tom has worked on documentaries and in public television since 1994. He associate produced the Sundance award-winning film Licensed To Kill (POV-PBS),and co-produced the current film festival award winning film Code Black. Tom co-produced and edited Fender Philosophers for PBS and Camp Out (Logo). He has edited the feature documentary films, Rock the Boat (HBO), Good Kurds, Bad Kurds (Slamdance, Independent Lens-PBS), and Home of the Brave (Sundance). He produced and directed the award-winning feature documentary, ONE BAD CAT: The Reverend Albert Wagner Story (Ovation). Tom is currently producing and directing the feature documentary Limited Partnership, about a gay couple who are the pioneers of same-sex marriage and immigration equality for the past 40 years. Other credits include producing television films for Discovery, and WNET’s series on disabilities, People in Motion. Tom is also on the board of the International Documentary Association and has been teaching editing, documentary filmmaking and mentoring the Sloan Science films at the USC School of Cinematic Arts since 2004. He is a member of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences and the Writer’s Guild of America, West. He is also a pediatrician and has served as medical consultant for Sesame Street and other film and television series. He graduated with a BS degree in zoology from The University of Michigan, an MD from the Medical College of Ohio and an MFA from the USC School of Cinematic Arts.

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  Tony Sullivan (in-person panelist)

  Panelist

  Equal Rights Pioneer and subject of the documentary.

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  Clela Rorex (in-person panelist)

  Panelist

  Former County Clerk in Boulder, CO who issued the marriage license to Tony and Richard; subject in the documentary.

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  Evan Wolfson (in-person panelist)

  Panelist

  Evan Wolfson is founder and President of Freedom to Marry, the campaign to win marriage nationwide. Before founding Freedom to Marry in 2003, 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. He has been recognized for his work by several institutions and publications - most recently in June 2012, when he was honored alongside President Barack Obama as a recipient of the Barnard Medal of Distinction. In 2004, Time magazine named Evan one of the "100 most influential people in the world," and in 2010, the American Psychiatric Association awarded him the John Fryer award for his contributions to improving the mental health of the LGBT community. Evan has argued before the U.S. Supreme Court in Boy Scouts of America v. Dale, served in the Peace Corps in West Africa, and is the author of Why Marriage Matters: America, Equality and Gay People's Right to Marry.

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  Kristin Russo (in-person and online moderator)

  Panelist

  Co-founder of LGBTQ organizations @everyoneisgay & @parentsproject, and host of @FirstPersonPBS.

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  Amos Lim (online panelist)

  Panelist

  Amos Lim immigrated from Singapore to the United States in 1999 to be with his husband, Mickey. But this move was not simple. Amos and Mickey encountered first hand the discrimination faced by same-sex binational couples under current US immigration law, that was compounded by DOMA. The struggle to stay in America, and have his marriage recognized, led Amos to activism, co-founding Out4Immigration www.out4immigration.org. As the Community Outreach Director for the all-volunteer grassroots group, Out4Immigration, Amos has worked both locally and nationally to raise the profile of same-sex binational couples, leading workshops, speaking to the media and teaching other couples to advocate for change to U.S. immigration law and meet with their Congressional representatives to ask for support of the Uniting American Families Act and Reuniting Families Act. Amos was an early supporter of full federal marriage rights, and forged strong alliances for same-sex binational couples with Marriage Equality USA and GetEQUAL. Amos has been instrumental in raising awareness about the unique struggles same-sex binational couples face and bringing that into the larger immigration dialog. In 2007, he organized San Francisco’s Immigrant Rights Summit where LGBT immigration issues were discussed for the first time. He has also been part of the San Francisco City ID Card committee, served on the LGBT Advisory Committee of the San Francisco Human Rights Commission from 2008 – 2014 and the City College of San Francisco’s Bond Oversight Committee from 2010 – 2014. Amos has an extensive professional background in the corporate sector, with experiences in project management, community organizing, business development and human resources. He currently serves on the Board of LYRIC and Francis Scott Key Elementary PTA and lives in San Francisco with his husband Mickey and their adorable daughter.

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  Pamela Denzer (online panelist)

  Panelist

  Pamela Denzer, Asylum Program Supervisor and BIA Fully Accredited Representative, is part of the legal team at Immigration Equality. She represents LGBT and HIV-positive asylum seekers at asylum hearings and in Immigration Court and assists asylees with adjustment of status applications and HIV waivers. She also helps binational couples and transgender clients navigate US immigration laws that discriminate against LGBT and HIV-positive immigrants and their families. Ms. Denzer did coursework at Fordham University Law School and was a Stein Scholar for Public Interest Law. Before joining Immigration Equality, Ms. Denzer worked as a BIA Accredited Representative at HIV Law Project representing HIV positive asylum seekers, handling adjustment of status cases involving HIV waiver issues, and providing technical assistance to attorneys and BIA Accredited representatives on HIV waiver issues.

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  Kirk Marcolina (online panelist)

  Panelist

  Producer/Writer/Editor/Cinematographer of the film Limited Partnership. Kirk has worked in television and documentary filmmaking for nearly 20 years. Most recently he produced and directed “The Life and Crimes of Doris Payne,” a multi-award-winning documentary about an 80-year-old jewel thief that premiered at Hot Docs in 2013. He also produced and directed the feature documentary, “Camp Out,” (Logo) which tells the story of the first Bible Camp for gay teenagers. Marcolina’s television work includes co-executive producing “Boy Meets Boy” (Bravo), “Gay Weddings” (Bravo), “Switched” (ABC Family), and “That Yin Yang Thing” (TLC). Marcolina also directed the Disney Channel documentary series “Bug Juice,” and has edited many reality-based and documentary series. Marcolina has taught Documentary Production at California State University, Long Beach and was a Trustee of the International Documentary Association. He received his MFA in Film and Video Production from the University of Southern California, and his BA in Communication from the University of Pennsylvania.

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  Lavi Soloway

  Panelist

  Born in Toronto, Canada, Lavi Soloway is a graduate of the Univ. of Toronto and Yeshiva Univ. Cardozo Law School. He joined Noemi Masliah in the practice of immigration law in 1994. His practice focuses on employment and family immigration for permanent as well as non-permanent work visas, asylum and representation of individuals in deportation proceedings. Mr. Soloway is a frequent lecturer and panelist at legal conferences and law schools on subjects ranging from basic immigration law to asylum. Mr. Soloway has been invited to provide training at Dept. of Homeland Security Asylum Offices and has rendered assistance and leadership and guidance to other attorneys in the provision of pro-bono legal services to indigent asylum seekers.

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  Amos

  Panelist