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Joe Saunders
As Equality Florida’s Senior Political Director, Joe leads the policy and political programs for the country’s largest state-based LGBTQ rights organization. An award-winning progressive leader, Joe’s skills live at the intersection of strategic communications, policy, elections and movement building. A student of the movement for LGBTQ rights, Joe began his career in progressive politics as an activist at the University…
Staff Executive Director of Equality Florida Action PAC & Senior Political Director
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Carlos Guillermo Smith
Carlos Guillermo Smith has been with Equality Florida since 2015 and now serves as Senior Policy Advisor to the organization. Carlos made history as Florida’s first openly-LGBTQ Latino lawmaker with his election to the Florida House of Representatives in 2016, where he served three consecutive two-year terms. In the aftermath of the Pulse nightclub shooting in his community, Carlos championed…
Staff Senior Advisor
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Jon Harris Maurer
Jon Harris Maurer is strategically positioned three blocks from the Capitol in downtown Tallahassee as Equality Florida’s General Counsel and Public Policy Director. A Fort Lauderdale native used to working in hostile territory, he got his start in public policy as a legislative aide in the Texas House of Representatives after attending Rice University. He then worked on the campaign…
Staff General Counsel & Public Policy Director
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Quinn Diaz
Quinn Diaz is the Public Policy Manager for Equality Florida. Before joining Equality Florida, Quinn worked as the primary strategist for statewide police reform initiatives at the ACLU of Florida and supported grantmaking programming to Black- and brown-led community-based organizations working to reduce the role of police in their communities. Prior to relocating to Florida, Quinn worked for seven years…
Staff Public Policy Manager
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Angelique Godwin
Angelique Godwin is the Director of Transgender Equality for Equality Florida. Previously, she served as Equality Florida’s TransAction Florida Special Events Coordinator, where she organized the “Let Us Live” March on the Capitol attended by over 200 transgender Floridians and allies during the 2024 legislative session. She also hosted the statewide “Voices for Change” summit, a convening that brought together…
Staff Director of Transgender Equality
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Jaron Sanchez
Jaron Sanchez (he/him) is a recent graduate from the University of Central Florida, majoring Political Science, with minors in Mass Media and Journalism Studies. After his best friend of over a decade came out to him as Trans, he decided to dedicate his time and research toward the betterment and advocacy of the LGBTQ+ community. During his senior year, he…
Staff Transgender Equality Associate
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Anita Carson
Anita Carson is the Director of Organizing for Equality Florida, where she leads statewide efforts to build grassroots power and mobilize communities to defend LGBTQ rights. Since joining the organization in 2022, she has focused on expanding volunteer networks, training activists, coordinating advocacy during Florida’s legislative sessions and leading large-scale election programs for pro-equality candidates across the state. Before Equality…
Staff Director of Field & Community Organizing
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Salvator Vieira
Salvatore Vieira (he/she/they) is the Operations & Community Engagement Manager at Equality Florida. He is responsible for volunteer engagement through the field electoral programs, legislative session, and pride programs, as well as developing and maintaining our volunteer leadership program – the Equality Captains. Salvatore is very passionate about grassroots organizing, and believes whole-hertedly in amplifying and uplifting marginalized voices. Salvatore…
Staff Operations & Community Engagement Manager
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Benjamin Stinson-Hurwitz
Benjamin Stinson-Hurwitz (he/him) has been an ally since birth. Coparented by a lesbian couple in NYC and a gay couple in Miami, he has spent his life using his friendly personality and passion to be a bridge between other straight, cisgender people and LGBTQ equality. Ben grew up alongside Equality Florida, attending events with his parents and volunteering politically with…
Staff Statewide Candidate Programs Manager
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Mary Eakins-Durand
Mary Eakins (she/her/ella) is a first generation US-born Cuban American. Her passions, and professional focuses, are in the areas of reproductive health and justice, criminal justice reform, and building LGBTQIA+ political power in the state. As a Cuban American raised in Hialeah, FL being a progressive, queer, pro-choice, woman was not something that was visible or acceptable in the Cuban…
Staff Deputy Director of Organizing