Glenn Duque Magpantay (born 1969) is the former executive director of the National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance, an instructor at Brooklyn Law School and Hunter College/CUNY, and a former civil rights attorney in the role of Democracy Program director for the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund. [1] In 2023, Glenn D Magpantay was appointed as a Commissioner to the United States Commission on Civil Rights by Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer. [2] He is chair of the LGBT Committee of the Asian American Bar Association of New York, [3] former co-chair of the Gay Asian & Pacific Islander Men of New York, [4] and recognized as an "authority on the federal Voting Rights Act and expert on Asian American political participation, including bilingual ballots, election reform, minority voter discrimination, multilingual exit polling, and census." [3] He has served as a commissioner on the New York City Voter Assistance Commission. [5] He is also a contributing writer for the Huffington Post . [4] The Glenn Magpantay Leadership Award at his undergraduate alma mater, the State University of New York at Stony Brook, is named after him. [6]
Magpantay was born to Dr. Rudolfo I. Magpantay and Dr. Esmeralda Duque-Magpantay. [7] Magpantay earned his bachelor's in Sociology & Social Sciences at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He earned his Juris Doctor from New England School of Law, [4] graduating cum laude. [8]
In 1991, Magpantay worked for Midwest Academy and US Student Association as a GROW grassroots organizing trainer. He transitioned to the role of community organizer at the Long Island Progressive Coalition in 1993, where he also ran its Political Action Committee (PAC). He next served as executive director at the University of California Student Association, [9] then as an immigration law clerk at Catholic Charities Legal Services, Inc. In 1994, Magpantay spoke at the National March on Washington for Lesbian, Gay, and Bi Equal Rights and Liberation. The same year, he was named one of "25 Leading Men of 2004" by Instinct . [10]
In 2000, he organized the first-ever testimony before the White House Initiative on Asian Americans & Pacific Islanders. [10] In 2005, the Asian American Lawyers Association of Massachusetts bestowed him with their Community Service Award for his work on voting rights in Boston. [11] Starting in 2006, he spent two years at the Asian American Bar Association of New York in the role of Continuing Legal Education Instructor. He then spent 17 years as a civil right attorney and Democracy Program Director at the Asian American Legal Defense & Education Fund. Overlapping with his tenure, he began as an Adjunct Associate Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School in 2007. The same year, he was a featured speaker at CUNY's Conference on Caribbean Asians. [12] In 2009, he began teaching at Hunter College as an adjunct Professor of Law & Asian American Studies where he teaches "Asian American Civil Rights & the Law", "Introduction to Asian American Studies" (aka Asians in the United States), and "Asian American Queerness: An Overview of LGBTQ Asian American / South Asian Issues". [13]
Magpantay joined the National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance as executive director in 2015. [14] He previously served as a co-director for the organization. Also in 2015, the New York State Bar Association Committee on Civil Rights honored Magpantay with the Haywood Burns Memorial Award. [15]
In 2016, Magpantay was bestowed with the Gay City News Impact Award. [8]
In 2017, Magpantay began teaching "Asian American Civil Rights and the Law" and "Intro to Asian American Studies" at Columbia University, maintaining his posts at Brooklyn Law School and Hunter. The same year, he was bestowed with an Arcus Leadership Fellowship. [16] The same year, he was a presenter at the Out & Equal Workplace Summit. [17]
In 2019, Magpantay led LGBT-inclusion training of faculty and staff at the University of Tsukuba in Japan. He also lobbied the United States House of Representatives for LGBTQ immigrants rights, meeting with 15 congressional offices to support the Reuniting Families Act. [18] [19] In August 2019, Magpantay appeared as a workshop leader and panelist at the National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance National Summit Training in Las Vegas, Nevada. [20]
In 2020, Magpantay was a guest speaker alongside the National LGBTQ Task Force's Policy Director, Meghan Maury, for Census Counts's webinar "Engaging AANHPI LGBTQ Communities." [21] He also led the workshop "The Census and LGBTQ Asians, South Asians, Southeast Asians, and Pacific Islanders: What’s at Stake, and How to Keep Safe" in Texas, Washington D.C., and New York. [22]
He is the principal of Magpantay & Associates, a nonprofit consulting and legal services firm. Crain’s NY Business hailed him as a Notable LGBTQ Executive in 2021. [23]
In 2021, Magpantay, was awarded a prestigious "George Soros Equality Fellow" from the Open Society Foundations where he is documenting the history of the LGBTQ Asian American community over the past 25 years. [24]
In February 2023, the United States Senate (majority) appointed him to the United States Commission on Civil Rights. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced his appointment [25] as a Commission in the congressional record [26] on February 13, 2023. At the Commission, Magpantay investigates the enforcement of civil rights and advises Congress and the President on civil rights policy
Magpantay will be the first Commissioner of Filipino heritage since the Commission was created in 1957 and the first openly-gay Asian American Commissioner since the Eisenhower Administration. His appointment was also supported by Congresswoman Grace Meng.
Magpantay helped create the Commission's statutory enforcement report on the Federal Response to Antiracism in the United States (2023) [27] . The report covered anti-Asian hate crimes since the onset of the COVID-19.
Magpantay has held a number of community service roles throughout the years. From 1992 to 1993, he was a board member for the NYC chapter of Citizen Action of New York, a grassroots organization dedicated to social, racial, economic, and environmental justice. [28] Then in 1993, Magpantay joined the American Friends Service Committee, a Quaker organization working towards peace and social justice in the US and abroad. He would serve with them as a Peace Building Committee member for 8 years. [28] Within that time, from 1996 to 1998, Magpantay also acted as an executive committee member for the Massachusetts chapter of the National Lawyers Guild, a longstanding progressive public interest legal association. [28]
Following these roles, from 1991 to 2001 Magpantay served as a trustee for the Boehm Foundation, a philanthropic organization that provided grant funding to organizations for democratic development and civil rights. [28] After that, from 2001 to 2005 Magpantay acted as a co-chair for Gay Asian and Pacific Islander Men of New York (GAPIMNY), an enduring all-volunteer community organization dedicated to Queer and Trans Asian Pacific Islanders. [29] Within that time, in 2002 he was also appointed by the New York City Council to the NYC Voter Assistance Commission to support efforts to ensure accessible, accurate, and secure elections. [30]
From 2005 onward, Magpantay served as a chair for the Pro Bono Committee of the Asian American Bar Association of New York until 2011, [31] then from 2013 to the present day as a chair for the LGBT committee. [32] Within that time, in 2015 he also became a Diversity and Inclusion Committee member for the National Asian Pacific Bar Association, which he continues in the present. [28] Most recently, in 2020 Magpantay began service as a NY Advisory committee member for the United States Commission on Civil Rights, established by the 1957 Civil Rights Act as an independent, bipartisan federal effort to develop civil rights policy and enforce of civil rights laws. [33] [34]
LGBTQ Immigrant's Rights
Asian American representation
Minority Voter Suppression
Defending the Voting Rights Act
Magpantay entered into a same-sex domestic partnership with Christopher Goeken, former director of communications for the New York State Trial Lawyers Association, on September 17, 2005. [72] They were married in a civil ceremony on February 8, 2013 by State Supreme Court Justice Doris Ling-Cohan, who had originally struck down New York's prohibition against same sex marriage in Hernandez v. Robles in 2004.
Goeken and Magpantay amicably divorced in 2020 and co-parent their son Malcolm.
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