Featured Guest Speaker

Charlotte Clymer

About Charlotte

Charlotte Clymer is a writer, LGBTQ activist, communications consultant, and military veteran. She was most recently the Press Secretary for Rapid Response at the Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest civil rights organization dedicated to advancing lesbian, gay, bisexual,
transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) equality. Her day-to-day work involved running the organization’s messaging in response to the White House and federal policy. Her commentary has been quoted by the New York Times, the Washington Post, and numerous other publications. Her work has been published in USA Today, The Washington Post, NBC News, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, GQ, The Independent, and others. She has also been a guest
commentator on MSNBC and CBS Sunday Morning. She serves on the D.C. Commission for Persons with Disabilities, the Board of Directors for the
Center for Law and Military Policy, the Military and Veterans Advisory Council for Modern Military Families of America and the Advisory Councils for Running Start and the Lone Star Parity Project, organizations working toward gender parity in elected office. She is a member of
the Truman National Security Project’s Class of 2019.

She was named to the 2020 Forbes 40 under 40 list in the “Politics & Government” category and the 2019 40 under 40 Queer Women of D.C. by the Mayor’s Office and The Washington Blade. She is a graduate of Georgetown University and resides in Washington, D.C.