Berkeley City Council, District 2
Berkeley, California

Darryl Moore serves a member of the Berkeley City Council representing District 2, South-West Berkeley, California. Moore is a management analyst for the Oakland Housing Authority and serves as a Board Member of the West Berkeley Foundation and the East Bay Community Scholarship Foundation. In 2000, Moore was elected to the Peralta Community College Board of Trustees becoming the first openly gay African-American elected to office in the East Bay. Moore received an undergraduate degree in Sociology from UC Santa Cruz and a Master's degree in Public Policy from the University of Chicago.

Author / Activist Detroit, Michigan

Michelle E. Brown is an author and activist born and raised in Detroit, Michigan. Her work is strongly influenced by the socio-economic, political and human rights history of the city. Drawing upon the city’s rich history and her own personal travels locally and nationally for inspiration, she has written essays for several mainstream and alternative newspapers, is a monthly columnist in “Between the Lines” Michigan’s only LGBT Newspaper, and has published poetry, short stories and authored two books. When not writing she works as a consultant to small businesses and non-profit organization providing organizational development assistance.

Brown serves on the board of the Ruth Ellis Center and is Co-Chair of the Michigan Women & AIDS Committee. She is a member of the National Organization of Women-Michigan Chapter, Michigan Fairness Forum, HRC-Federal Club, Michigan Coalition for Human Rights, Michigan Election Committee, ACLU, Democratic Party-Oakland County, National Black Justice Coalition, Triangle Foundation, Transgender Michigan, and the NAACP.

Associate Professor, Lincoln University
Columbia, Missouri

Kylar W. Broadus is a professor, attorney, activist and public speaker from Missouri. He is an associate professor of business law at Lincoln University of Missouri, a historically black college where he serves as chair of the business department. Kylar has maintained a general practice of law in Columbia, Missouri since 1997. Formerly, State Legislative Manager and Counsel at the Human Rights Campaign, the nation's largest gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender advocacy group.

In August 2005, Broadus along with two other panelists were the first to present information before the American Bar Association regarding Transgender clients. In 2004, he spoke at the Regional Affirmative Action Conference on Transgender Issues and Affirmative Action.

In January of 2003, Broadus was called before the American Association of Law Schools on transgender issues. In February of 2003, he presented at Georgetown Law School's Symposium on Gender and the Law on the same issue. He continues to speak and lobby on the national, state and local levels in the areas of transgender and sexual orientation law and advocacy.

Senior Consultant
Conway Marketing Group
Berkeley, CA 

Zandra R. Conway is Senior Consultant for the PRDesignGroup and LisaCampbellMedia. Conway spent twenty-two years with Hewlett Packard, and later worked in various functional areas such as Manufacturing, Human Resources, Marketing and Information Technology. She served as President of the Atlanta Black Employees Forum, and Co-Chair of the Professional Women Conference. She is a graduate of San Jose State University with a BA in Social Science and holds a BS in Management Information Systems from the University of San Francisco. Conway is a golden-life member of the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc and attends Hillside Chapel and Truth Center.

Los Angeles, CA

President of the National Friendship Movement, President of Gentlemen’s Gentlemen (working on behalf of the LGBT youth), former board member of John XXII AIDS Ministry, past co-chairperson of the Los Angeles Black Pride (ATB), active in serving the Los Angeles LGBT community for several years.

Along with being a father of two teenage boys, he is engaged in a tremendous amount of work with the homeless in Los Angeles, an advocate of public education that brings together parents to promote fiscal transparency, a public process, and a parent voice in budget decisions, along with setting priorities that place children and classrooms first, and continues his ongoing passion of offering an in-depth look at how experienced family law attorneys work with skilled mental health professionals to meet the needs of children in foster care and families throughout the custody evaluation process.

Associate Director of Diversity, Human Rights Campaign
Washington, DC

 Donna R. Payne is Associate Director of Diversity, Human Rights Campaign (HRC). In 2008 she celebrated 10 years of service working for the organization. In her capacity, Payne works closely with a number of civil rights organizations and leaders across the country to increase visibility of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community within religious and people of color communities.

HRC is the largest national lesbian and gay political organization, with members throughout the country.  It effectively lobbies Congress, provides campaign support and educates the public to ensure that lesbian and gay Americans can be open, honest and safe at home, at work and in the community.

Reverend Byron Williams has served as pastor of the Resurrection Community Church since 2002. A self-described “prisoner to hope,” Williams fuses theology with public policy to bring a fresh social justice perspective to the public arena. Williams draws a distinction between religiosity and theology and it is this characteristic that sharpens his critique of current events. His commitment to “changing the status quo conversation,” prods his readers to think deeper about the critical issues facing Americans in the 21st century. As the only pastor/syndicated columnist in the country, Williams writes twice weekly column social/political column for the Oakland Tribune. His column appears in 10 publications and several progressive web sites across the country.

Williams has spoken throughout the country, including presenting the 2006 keynote address at the University of California African American graduation ceremony. He has appeared on numerous television and radio news programs, including CNN, ABC Radio, Fox News, and National Public Radio. He is also a featured writer on The Huffington Post. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science; his masters’ thesis at the Pacific School of Religion of the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, CA emphasized a theology of liberation. He also speaks French. A single parent for the past 11 years, Byron lives in Oakland, CA with his son Malik Isaiah Williams, age 13.