Tony Varona

Tony Varona is Professor and Associate Dean for Faculty and Academic Affairs at American University Washington College of Law. He teaches Contracts and Administrative, Media and Public Law, and writes principally in the areas of communications/media law and LGBT civil rights. He has served on the boards of directors of GLAAD, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) and the Alliance for Justice. Before entering full-time teaching in 2002 at Pace Law School in New York, he was HRC’s General Counsel and Legal Director and Adjunct Professor of Law at Georgetown. In 2000, he served as a Wasserstein Public Interest Fellow at Harvard Law School. Earlier in his career, he was an associate at Skadden Arps and Mintz Levin and an honors program attorney at the Federal Communications Commission. Dean Varona has won a number of teaching awards, including most recently the 2014 American University Faculty Award for Outstanding Teaching in a Full-Time Appointment. In 2009, he was honored with the Hugh A. Johnson, Jr., Memorial Award by the Washington Hispanic Bar Association. He serves as an advisor to the AUWCL’s LaLSA and Lambda student organizations, and is on the Faculty Review Boards of the Administrative Law Review and the American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy and the Law. He holds A.B. and J.D. degrees from Boston College and an LL.M. from Georgetown.