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词条 Rea Carey
释义

  1. Personal

  2. Career

  3. See also

  4. References

  5. External links

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|residence= Washington, D.C., U.S.
|movement= LGBT rights movement
|organization= National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
|title= Executive director
|predecessor = Matt Foreman
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Harvard University
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}}Rea Carey (born December 22, 1966) is an American lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights activist and the executive director of the National LGBTQ Task Force (previously the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force) since 2008. She previously served as the organization's deputy executive director and was the founding executive director of the National Youth Advocacy Coalition.[1][2]

Personal

Carey grew up in Denver, Colorado, and came out at the age of 16, near the start of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the United States, which prompted her early activism.[3]

Carey graduated from Smith College in the 1980s and holds a Master of Public Administration degree from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.[3][4][5]

She lives in Washington, DC, with her wife, Margaret Conway, and daughter.[5]

Career

Carey began her career working extensively in HIV/AIDS prevention and in the LGBT community[6] as one of the co-founders of Gay Men and Lesbians Opposing Violence and the founding executive director of the National Youth Advocacy Coalition. She also served as an advisor to major donors and foundations, and has served on the advisory boards for such wide-ranging publications as Teen People magazine and the Georgetown University Journal of Gender and the Law.[1]

In 1999, The Advocate named Carey one of its "Best and Brightest" for individual contributions to the LGBT rights movement.[4]

Carey joined the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force in 2004 as deputy executive director, has served as executive director since 2008.[1][2][4]

She was one of 105 women arrested on {{date|2013|09|12}} during an act of civil disobedience designed to pressure the United States House of Representatives to act on comprehensive immigration reform.[7]

Carey serves on the advisory board of the LGBTQ Policy Journal of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.[1]

See also

  • National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
  • National Youth Advocacy Coalition

References

1. ^{{cite web | url=http://www.ngltf.org/about_us/staff_directory/sort_by_name/ReaCarey | title=Rea Carey bio | work=National Gay and Lesbian Task Force | accessdate=December 7, 2013 | deadurl=yes | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131002181524/http://www.ngltf.org/about_us/staff_directory/sort_by_name/ReaCarey | archivedate=October 2, 2013 | df= }}
2. ^{{cite web | url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rea-carey/ | title=Rea Carey bio | work=The Huffington Post | accessdate=December 7, 2013}}
3. ^{{cite news | url=http://www.sgn.org/sgnnews34_37/page42.cfm | title=Lesbian Notions: Social change calling | work=Seattle Gay News | date=September 15, 2006 | accessdate=December 7, 2013 | author=Post, Libby | pages=34}}
4. ^{{cite web | url=http://miamiherald.typepad.com/gaysouthflorida/2008/06/rea-carey-named.html | title=Rea Carey named executive director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force | publisher=Steve Rothaus' Gay South Florida | accessdate=December 7, 2013}}
5. ^{{cite web | url=http://flamboyanfoundation.org/about/board-and-staff/ | title=Board & Staff | publisher=Flamboyan Foundation | accessdate=December 7, 2013}}
6. ^{{cite web | url=http://www.prime-movers.net/our-fellows/rea-carey/ | title=Prime Movers - Rea Carey | publisher=Prime Movers | accessdate=December 7, 2013}}
7. ^{{cite news | url=http://www.advocate.com/politics/washington-dc/2013/09/12/task-forces-rea-carey-arrested-105-women-demanding-immigration | title=Task Force's Rea Carey Arrested With 105 Women Demanding Immigration Reform | work=The Advocate | date=September 12, 2013 | accessdate=December 7, 2013 | author=Brydum, Sunnivie | location=Washington, D.C.}}

External links

  • National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
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