General Info

Office Telephone Number: 212-337-8550
Fax Number: 212-337-1972
Toll Free Number: 1-866-930-3283
Email: info [at] srlp [dot] org

Staff

Gabriel Arkles
Staff Attorney
ext. 302
gabriel [at] srlp [dot] org
bio

Felìx Gardon
Acting Organizing Support Coordinator
ext. 307
felix [at] srlp [dot] org

Pooja Gehi
Staff Attorney
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pooja [at] srlp [dot] org
bio

Daniel McGee
Development Coordinator
ext. 301
daniel [at] srlp [dot] org
bio

Emily Nepon
Grassroots Fundraising Coordinator
ext. 300
e [dot] nepon [at] srlp [dot] org
bio

Elana Redfield
Staff Attorney
ext. 304
elana [at] srlp [dot] org
bio

For other inquiries, email info [at] srlp [dot] org

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STAFF BIOS

Gabriel Arkles is Staff Attorney at the Sylvia Rivera Law Project, where he has provided legal services to hundreds of low-income transgender, intersex, and gender nonconforming people of color concerning a range of survival-related legal issues. He has also done impact litigation and policy work to advance the rights of these communities, including participating in a recent victory with NY's juvenile justice system. Currently his work focuses on advocating for the rights of community members imprisoned throughout New York State.  He has done activism and advocacy around issues of gender, sexual orientation, and HIV for many years. His article Safety and Solidarity Across Gender Lines: Rethinking the Segregation of Transgender People in Detention appeared in the Temple Political & Civil Rights Law Review in 2009.  In his spare time, Gabriel enjoys reading science fiction and fantasy novels and playing role playing games. 

Pooja Gehi is a staff attorney at the Sylvia Rivera Law Project where she represents low-income, transgender and intersex people of color in the areas of discrimination, immigration, access to government benefits, proper identification and healthcare. Prior to working at SRLP she wrote criminal appeals in 4th circuit and was a member of the Justice and Solidarity Collective in Washington DC. Pooja has organized against police brutality, the prison industrial complex, immigration detention, globalization, and unfair labor practices with the Coalition of Immokalee Farm Workers. Pooja recently co-authored an article, Unraveling Injustice: Race and Class Impact of Medicaid Exclusions of Transition-Related Health Care for Transgender People with her fabulous co-worker, Gabriel Arkles.  She is also a member of the Safe outside the System Collective’s step team and practices a lot of bikram yoga.

Daniel McGee has been involved with SRLP since 2003.  He first served on the Steering Committee and then joined the Collective Development Team before becoming a staff member in 2006.  Daniel has hiked the entire Appalachian Trail, from Georgia to Maine and plays trumpet with the Rude Mechanical Orchestra, a collectively-run radical marching band which supports social and economic justice efforts in New York City.

Emily Nepon has loved SRLP since its founding in 2002, and was thrilled to join the staff as Grassroots Fundraising Coordinator in 2007. Nepon learned fundraising skills through founding and directing the Self-Education Foundation, and by raising money for ACT UP Philadelphia, R2K Legal Defense (supporting activists arrested at the 2000 RNC protests), and Jewish anti-occupation organizing. Nepon is also a performer, often seen in the Jews for Racial and Economic Justice annual Purimspiel and recently in their own play “Between Two Worlds: Who Loved You Before You Were Mine.”

Elana Redfield joined the Sylvia Rivera Law Project as a staff attorney in May of 2009. In her professional capacity, she assists SRLP community members with name changes, changing identity documentation, confronting discrimination in sex-segregated facilities such as foster care and homeless shelters, navigating immigration law and enforcement, and accessing welfare, Medicaid, and other public benefits. Prior to joining the SRLP staff, Elana worked with defendants in the criminal justice system, represented immigrants fighting deportation proceedings, and served as a long-time volunteer with the SRLP Collective Development Team. In her free time, Elana plays the pedal steel guitar in a country & western band.