The Center for Health Policy and Law’s annual lecture will be delivered by Gabriel Arkles, litigation director at the Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund (TLDEF).
Gabriel Arkles is litigation director at the Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund, where he advocates for trans people’s right to healthcare, name change regardless of criminal history and safer treatment in jail. He has also worked as an attorney at the ACLU
LGBTQ & HIV Project, where he represented Aimee Stephens before the Supreme Court in the case that established it is against federal law to fire people for being trans or LGBQ.
LGBTQ & HIV Project, where he represented Aimee Stephens before the Supreme Court in the case that established it is against federal law to fire people for being trans or LGBQ.
At the Sylvia Rivera Law Project, Arkles was a collective member, staff attorney and the director of prisoner justice. He was an associate teaching professor in the Legal Skills in Social Context program at Northeastern Law from 2013 to 2017, and he co-founded the Alyssa Rodriguez Center for Gender Justice. His writing has appeared in publications such as NYU Law Review, Northeastern University Law Review, NBC News, CBS, TruthOut, The Advocate and The Scholar and Feminist Online.
Oct 27, 2023
12:45 pm to 2:00 pm