Mary Bonauto is the Senior Director of Civil Rights and Legal Strategies at GLAD Law. She has worked on policy and litigated in the state and federal courts of New England on various discrimination issues including anti-LGBTQ discrimination, student rights, free speech, religious liberty, relationship recognition, juvenile justice, criminal justice, and child welfare.

Mary is a leading strategist on winning and defending marriage equality, including advocating in state legislatures, leading ballot campaigns, and litigating and supporting groundbreaking legal challenges and victories, including Goodridge v. Department of Public Health (2004), making Massachusetts the first state where same-sex couples could legally marry, Gill v. OPM (2012), the first federal appellate court ruling against DOMA, and Obergefell v. Hodges (2015), establishing the freedom to marry for same-sex couples nationwide.

Mary serves on the Maine Chief Justice’s Justice for Children Task Force and serves as Co-Chair of the Race and Equity Subcommittee. She has received numerous awards including the 2014 MacArthur Fellowship. In 2024, Mary was one of 20 Americans honored at the White House by former President Joe Biden with the Presidential Citizens Medal. Mary received this award for her contributions to the fight for marriage equality, including arguing Obergefell v. Hodges before the Supreme Court of the United States.

Joe Metmowlee Garland, MD AAHIVS (he/him) is the Medical Director of the Infectious Diseases and Immunology Center and the Corliss Street Clinic, both at Brown University Health in Providence, Rhode Island. He also serves as a clinician and a member of the Medical Advisory Board at Clínica Esperanza, also located in Providence. Dr. Garland is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University.

As a physician, he provides both primary care and infectious diseases specialty care, with a focus on the prevention and treatment of HIV. He is board certified in Infectious Diseases and Internal Medicine and is a practicing HIV Specialist of the American Academy of HIV Medicine. Dr. Garland received his Doctor of Medicine degree from Harvard Medical School and completed residency and fellowship training at the University of Pennsylvania.