Director of Advocacy + LGBTQIA+ Initiatives

Jay Edidin comes to WCJA from a lifetime of advocacy and organizing, from growing up in the nuclear freeze movement of the 1980s to agitating for consent training on college campuses and radical trans inclusion in queer liberation. After seventeen years as a writer and editor, Jay left publishing to pursue a passion for human rights, culminating in a MA from John Jay College of Criminal Justice accompanied by seminal research on the impact of diagnostic criteria on the evolution of the Autistic self-advocacy movement. He believes that any true queer liberation must also encompass the abolition of mass incarceration.