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.

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.