D'Arcy Kemnitz, Executive Director

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D'Arcy Kemnitz has more than 20 years experience working in the nonprofit arena and the social justice movement. In her present position as Executive Director of the LGBT Bar, she organizes the only national, annual lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) law student Career Fair and Continuing Legal Education Conference.  The National Association for Law Placement presented the Career Fair with its prestigious 2008 Award of Distinction for Diversity. Additionally, Ms. Kemnitz orchestrates collaboration between over 25 affiliated local, state and regional voluntary LGBT bar associations and dozens of LGBT law student associations. The LGBT Bar features eight formal LGBT diversity liaisons to various entities within the American Bar Association, including a position in the House of Delegates. Ms. Kemnitz has spoken at numerous law schools and bar associations across the country and has published in the University of Baltimore Journal of Environmental Law, MCCA’s Diversity & the Bar Magazine, various ABA publications and, most recently, the GP/Solo Magazine on LGBT issues. She has appeared in the media presenting issues of LGBT diversity in the profession at ABC News, The Advocate Magazine, and Time Magazine, among others. Before leading the NLGLA, Ms. Kemnitz was the Executive Director of the Wildlife Advocacy Project and a staff attorney at the Center for Food Safety. Ms. Kemnitz is a distinguished graduate of the University of Wisconsin and the Hamline University School of Law.

Juan Ramon Garcia, Communications & Public Relations Specialist

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Juan Ramon Garcia is a graduate of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). An engineer by training, Juan worked for a Member of the U.S. House of Representatives and the Government of the District of Columbia's Office of the State Superintendent of Education before joining the NLGLA in April of 2008.  Juan was a founding member of Caltech PRIDE, the campus’s first LGBT group to include students, faculty and staff.

Justin Johns, Program Associate

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Justin Johns is a graduate of Virginia Commonwealth University, with a degree in Mass Communications. He joined the NLGLA in June of 2008, after working in the tobacco-control movement at the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids.