Urvashi Vaid is the Director of Center for Gender & Sexuality Law at the Columbia Law School. Vaid is a long time organizer and leader in the LGBT and progressive movements who has served as executive director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force and a staff attorney at the ACLU’s National Prison Project. She worked for ten years in global philanthropy serving as executive director of the Arcus Foundation and deputy director of the Ford Foundation’s Governance and Civil Society Unit, and is a current Board member of the Gill Foundation. Vaid is the author of Irresistible Revolution: Confronting Race, Class and the Assumptions of LGBT Politics and Virtual Equality: The Mainstreaming of Gay and Lesbian Liberation. She is co-editor with John D’Emilio and William Turner of an anthology of histories of key LGBT policy wins titled Creating Change: Public Policy, Sexuality and Civil Rights.
Professor Vaid is the author of “Now You Get What You Want, Do You Want More?”.
N.Y.U. Review of Law and Social Change 