Gay & Lesbian Leadership
Institute
Harvard Fellowship Alumni
2006
Fellows
Jose Cisneros – Currently serving as
treasurer of the City of San
Francisco
John Frederick – Albany County, New
York Legislature
Kevin Lee – Lansdowne, Pennsylvania Borough
Council
Jamie McLeod – Santa Clara, California City
Council
Curtis Shepard – Director of
Government Relations, Los
Angeles, California Gay
& Lesbian Center
Roey Thorpe – currently at the
Equality Federation
David Van der Griff – Chief of
Staff, California State Representative John Laird’s
office
2005
Fellows
Mario Acosta-Velez – Washington, DC Human Rights
Commission
John Brady – Sussex County, Delaware Recorder of
Deeds
Michael Fleming – Executive Director
of Bohnett Foundation, Los
Angeles, CA
Stephen Glassman – Chairperson,
Pennsylvania
Human Rights Commission
Mark Kleinschmidt – Councilmember,
Town of Chapel Hill,
North
Carolina
James McKissic – Vice President of
Programs, Urban League of Chattanooga, Tennessee
Annise Parker – currently serving as
City Controller for the City of Houston, Texas
2004
Fellows
Toni Atkins – currently serving on
the San Diego, California City
Council
Pedro Briones – City Councilmember
Mount Rainier, Maryland
Tom Duane – currently serving in the
New York State Senate
Ron Forsythe – Chief of Police,
Suisun City, California
Darryl Moore – City Councilmember,
Berkeley, California
Jeffrey Prang – Councilmember,
West Hollywood, California
Jim Roth – currently serving as
County Commissioner in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Mirian Saez – Director of Island
Operations, Treasure City
California Development
Authority
Ken Yeager – Supervisor, District 4
Santa Clara County,
California
2003
Fellows
Robert C. Fyrst - Madison,
Wisconsin
Dane County Board of
Supervisors
Jeffrey Gattas - Chief of Staff for
San Diego, California Councilmember Toni
Atkins
Kathy Luz Herrera - Tompkins
County Legislature, Ithaca, New
York
Robert Oldakowski –Mayor of the
Village of Key Biscayne, Florida
Tony Plakas - Manager of
Lake Worth LGBT Community
Center; Alternate Member, Lake
Worth Electric Utility Review Task Force
Philip Reed – former New York City
Councilmember
Cathy Woolard - Atlanta, GA- City Council
President, Atlanta,
GA
2002
Fellows
Mike Smith - Denver, CO
Dan Stewart - Mayor of Plattsburgh, New
York
David Young - Dade County Florida Juvenile
Court Judge
