Andy Izenson, Speaker (2024)

Andy Izenson is the Senior Legal Director of the Chosen Family Law Center and the staff attorney at the LGBTQ+ Advocacy Clinic at Harvard Law School. They have taught for many years on queer and trans family law, prison abolition and transformative community building, and communication skills for the revolution, including at Columbia University, Harvard Law School, and Yale Divinity School, and have recently founded the teach-in series “The World That Is Coming: A Do’ikayt Teach-in” to unearth and explore a Jewish mystical anarchism. Andy has long served on the board of the NYC National Lawyers Guild, including serving as president from 2018 to 2021, and on the board of their Renewal synagogue, Kol Hai. Andy’s publications include the Advocate, the Queer Magic Anthology, the Texas Journal on Civil Liberties and Civil Rights, Listen To Your Skin: An Anthology of Queer and Self Love, the After Marriage Equality Collection, and the Brill Journal of Religion and the Arts, and they live on a trans commune on Lenape land in the Hudson Valley of New York.