Kris Hayashi joined Transgender Law Center in May 2013 to oversee personnel management and human resources, finance and operations, strategic planning, and the integration of racial justice via an intersectional analysis in TLC’s programmatic and legal work. Kris became Executive Director in February of 2015. Kris has been active in social, racial and economic justice organizing for over 20 years. For the last ten years Kris served as the Executive Director/Co-Director of the Audre Lorde Project, a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Two Spirit, Trans and Gender Non-Conforming People of Color organizing center based in New York City. Previously he served as a Trainer/Organizer at Western States Center in Portland, Oregon and as Executive Director of Youth United for Community Action – a youth organizing group in California, led by young people of color organizing for social and environmental justice.