NAME: Glenn D. Magpantay, Esquire

TITLE: Financial Chair

RESPONSIBILITIES: Responsibilities include, but are not limited to attending Steering Committee meetings, managing the organization's bank account, proposing an annual budget, overseeing expenditures, and reporting monthly organizational finances and the annual report to the Steering Committee.

Glenn D. Magpantay, Esq. is the [Financial] Chair of the Gay Asian & Pacific Islander Men of New York, a political, educational, social, and peer-support group for gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning Asian and Pacific Islander men in the Greater New York Metropolitan Area.

Under his leadership, he spearheaded “Queer Asian Pacific Legacy” a historic regional conference of 400 LGBT APAs to network, organize, agitate, educate, and build capacity. He also spearheaded the first ever testimony before The White House Initiative on Asian Americans & Pacific Islander in 2000.

He was named as one of INSTINCT MAGAZINE’S “25 Leading Men of 2004,” in the magazine’s Nov. 2004 power issue. Glenn appeared alongside Anthony Romeo of the ACLU, Carson Kressley of TV’s Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, singer Rufus Wainwright, actor Alan Cumming, and Michael Stipe.

Professionally, Glenn is a Staff Attorney at the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund. He is a recognized authority on enforcement of the federal Voting Rights Act and Asian American political participation (which includes bilingual ballots, election reform, anti-Asian voter discrimination, multi-lingual exit polling, and census). AALDEF has also filed briefs with federal and state courts in support of same-sex marriage and civil rights of lesbians and gays.

Glenn has given commentary to numerous media outlets including The New York Times, USA Today, The Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, The Dallas Morning News. He has been profiled in the New York Daily News and The New York Law Journal. He has appeared on CNN and National Public Radio.

His comments on the intersections of gay rights and traditional civil rights law have appeared in the April 2001 issue the N.Y.U. REVIEW OF LAW AND SOCIAL CHANGE. His article, Asian American Voting Rights: A Perspective from the Northeast, has been published in 28 FORDHAM URBAN LAW REVIEW 739 (2001). He co-authored the National Gay & Lesbian Task Force’s report, Redistricting and the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Community, A Strategy Memo (2001). In 1994, he spoke at the National March on Washington for Lesbian, Gay, and Bi Equal Rights and Liberation.

He has been honored by the Philippine Junior Chamber of Commerce (NY), National Lawyers Guild (MA), U.S. Student Association, and was selected as a National Association for Public Interest Law (NAPIL) Equal Justice Fellowship.

Glenn attended the State University of New York (SUNY) at Stony Brook on Long Island, and as a beneficiary of affirmative action, graduated cum laude from the New England School of Law, in Boston.