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Rachel B. Tiven

Country

United States

Birth - Death

Occupation

Activist

Description

Former Executive Director, Immigration Equality, which advocates for equal immigration and asylum rights for LGBT and HIV-positive individuals into the United States. Lawyer. Represented immigrant clients at the Legal Aid Society, and served as a law clerk in the Southern District of New York. Before becoming an attorney was a reporter for Bloomberg Business News and a member of Lambda Legal’s media team. Graduate of Columbia Law School and Harvard-Radcliffe College. In 2012, received Columbia’s Public Interest Law Foundation Achievement Award, and was named one of the Advocate’s 40 Under 40.

See Also

• LGBTQ Investigative Journalists and Editors
• Practising LGBTQ Rights Lawyers
• Immigration, Migration, and Refugee Activists in the LGBTQ Community

Further Reading/Research

• http://www.theguardian.com/profile/rachel-b-tiven
• http://immigrationequality.org/2013/08/rachel-b-tiven-announces-plan-to-step-down-as-executive-director-of-immigration-equality-action-fund/

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