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anne tamar-mattis
founder & executive director

Founder and Executive Director Anne Tamar-Mattis brings to AIC more than seventeen years of experience in community organizing and nonprofit organizational management, primarily with the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex (LGBTQI) and youth communities. She spent six years as the Director of the LYRIC Youth Talkline, a national peer-support line for LGBTQ youth, and she was the first Program Director for San Francisco’s LGBT Community Center. In 2003 she took a brief hiatus to attend law school, graduating from the University of California Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall) in 2006.

Anne is the author of Exceptions to the Rule: Curing the Law's Failure to Protect Intersex Infants, 21 Berkeley J. Gender Law & Just. 59 (2006). Her work in service to the LGBTQI communities has been recognized by Equal Justice Works, the National Lesbian and Gay Law Association, the Pride Law Fund, Uncommon Legacy, and the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence.

Anne has been an involved ally of the intersex rights movement for many years and has worked with intersex community leaders to forge connections between the intersex and LGBTQ civil rights movements. She and her partner of fourteen years, intersex activist and physician Suegee Tamar-Mattis, are the parents of two children.