Carolyn Laub

  • GSA Network (formerly Gay-Straight Alliance Network)

  • 1999 Global Fellow

Carolyn Laub
  • GSA Network (formerly Gay-Straight Alliance Network)

  • 1999 Global Fellow

bold idea

Bring together LGBTQ and straight high school and college students to support each other, provide a safe place to socialize, and create a platform for activism to fight homophobia and transphobia.

Personal Bio

Carolyn Laub is the Executive Director of the Gay-Straight Alliance Network, which she founded at age 23. Her activism has mobilized a vibrant and diverse LGBTQ and straight ally youth movement, by expanding the number of Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA) clubs in California high schools and middle schools from 40 in 1998 to more than 850 clubs in 2011. Carolyn also helped lead the effort to pass California’s school nondiscrimination law, the California Student Safety and Violence Act.

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    San Francisco, United States

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    Nonprofit

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