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 Foster
Director of Outreach
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gabrielfoster [at] srlp [dot] org
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Pooja Gehi
Director of Litigation & Advocacy
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pooja [at] srlp [dot] org
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Reina Gossett
Director of Membership
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reina [at] srlp [dot] org
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Daniel McGee
Director of Finance & Development
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daniel [at] srlp [dot] org
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Emily Nepon
Director of Grassroots Fundraising
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e [dot] nepon [at] srlp [dot] org
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Elana Redfield
Director of Legal Services & Policy Initiatives
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elana [at] srlp [dot] org
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Chase Strangio
Equal Justice Works Fellow
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chase [at] srlp [dot] org
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For other inquiries, email info [at] srlp [dot] org

Gabriel Foster is a queer, black, trans, "momma's boy" who recently relocated to New York.  Prior to making his way to the Eastern Time Zone, he lived and worked in Seattle, WA with the Northwest Network of bisexual, trans, lesbian & gay survivors of abuse helping to create their youth programming.  From age fifteen to twenty-six he went from a program constituent to program staff in the American Friends Service Committee's GLBTQ Youth Program.  Before making his way to New York, he most recently worked for SPARK Reproductive Justice Now to develop a program with and for LGBTQ Youth of color and allies in Atlanta, GA and with the Leeway Foundation, supporting women and trans people creating art and social change in Philadelphia, PA.  After many years of preparation and community building and crushing on SRLP as an organization, it is absolutely not possible for him to be any more excited about being at SRLP and in the Big Apple!

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.

Reina Gossett joined the Sylvia Rivera Law Project in July of 2010 as the membership coordinator.  Along with Gabriel Foster she will staff the newly created Movement Building Team, working to develop SRLP’s membership and community organizing work.  She believes creativity & imagination are crucial for growing strong communities and practicing self determination.  She also loves making collages, watching re-runs of Battlestar Galatactica and reading anything illustrated by Diane & Leo Dillon. 

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.

Chase Strangio joined the staff of the Sylvia Rivera Law Project as an Equal Justice Works fellow in September 2010. Prior to joining SRLP as staff, Chase worked as a full-time intern in 2009 and 2010 and is thrilled to be back. Chase is excited to work alongside the most brilliant coworkers in the world on a fellowship dedicated to expanding coalition work with the disability justice movement and increasing SRLP's capacity to provide direct legal services to community members with psychiatric disabilities.  Outside of SRLP, Chase enjoys admiring small kittens, watching tv and going on long and short bike rides.