Dean Spade is a lawyer, civil rights activist, writer, and Associate Professor of Law at Seattle University School of Law. In 2002, Spade founded the Sylvia Rivera Law Project, a non-profit law collective in New York City that provides free legal services to transgender, intersex and gender non-conforming people who are low-income and/or people of color. The Advocate named Spade one of their "Forty Under 40" in May 2010, and Utne Reader named Spade and Tyrone Boucher on their list of "50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World" in 2009, for their collaborative project "Enough: The Personal Politics of Resisting Capitalism." Sponsored by the Women's and Gender Studies Program.
WGST's Annual Stonewall Lecture