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Current Staff

Adam G. Bass, Senior Media Strategist

Adam G. Bass joined GLAAD in early 2007. Prior to GLAAD, Adam worked for over ten years in electoral politics, working on communications and field work in federal, state, local and issue campaigns. Adam is from Riverton, Utah where at 19 he was the youngest-ever elected official to serve in that state.

Ann Craig, Director of Religion Faith and Values

Ann Craig loves the way her Yale Divinity School degree, her track record of LGBT advocacy and national leadership in the United Methodist Church converge in her current media work with dozens of LGBT faith groups. Ann is a singer and poet.

Cindi Creager, Director of National News

Cindi Creager helps national media outlets with story ideas, spokespeople and various other resources related to LGBT people and issues. She also ensures those same outlets cover LGBT issues fairly, accurately and inclusively. Cindi also helps LGBT constituents across the country with media strategy, media prep and media placement. In her spare time she enjoys spending quality hours with her wife, Rainie Cole, and working on independent documentary projects. She also loves comedy and has a dream to one day be on Saturday Night Live.

Rich Ferraro, Director of Public Relations

Rich Ferraro works to raise awareness of GLAAD’s media advocacy and culture-changing work. He blogs about GLAAD events and upcoming news for GLAAD members and readers of glaadBLOG. Prior to joining GLAAD in 2008, Rich blogged on trends in LGBT marketing at the Fleishman-Hillard Out Front blog. In addition to keeping up with the latest LGBT news 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, Rich is an expert on all things American Idol and can name the top 12 from each season, in the order they were eliminated.

Rashad Robinson, Senior Director of Media Programs

Rashad Robinson has been with the organization since 2005. In his current role, he oversees the advocacy work of the Media Programs team as they work with lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) advocates and media professionals alike to promote fair, accurate and inclusive media coverage of the LGBT community. Before joining GLAAD, Rashad served as National Communications Director for the Right to Vote Campaign, a national collaboration of eight major civil rights organizations working on voter disenfranchisement. He also served as National Field Director with the Center for Voting and Democracy. In 2003, Rashad served as lead organizer for the Claim Democracy Conference, which featured national civil rights leaders, presidential candidates and congressional leaders.

He has been a featured spokesperson on an array of issues in print, radio and television, and in 2004 he appeared as the youngest contestant on Showtime’s Political Reality series American Candidate. A graduate of Marymount University in Arlington, VA, Rashad was a Politics major with a minor in History and Communications. He is also a graduate of the acclaimed SPIN Project Media Academy in Petaluma, Calif. and currently sits on the board of directors for FairVote.

Jonathan Rosales, Entertainment Media Manager

Jonathan Rosales graduated from the University of Southern California in December 2005 with a double major in Gender Studies and Political Science. During his final semester at USC, he joined GLAAD as the Media Awards Intern before coming on board full-time as the Media Awards Communications Associate following his graduation. In May 2009, Jonathan began serving as the Entertainment Media Manager, which allows him to make good use of his borderline unhealthy obsession with television.

Monica Trasandes, Spanish Language Media Director

Monica Trasandes was born in Montevideo, Uruguay and grew up in San Diego. Monica has a B.A. in International Relations from the University of California, Santa Barbara and an MFA in Creative Writing from Emerson College in Boston. She has worked as a reporter and as a magazine editor.

Monica Trasandes es directora de medios en español para GLAAD. Ella nació en Montevideo, Uruguay y se crió en San Diego. Estudió Relaciones Internacionales en la Universidad de California, Santa Barbara y Redacción en Emerson College en Boston. Ella ha trabajado como periodista y editora de revista.

Current Fellows

Seth Adam, Deputy Director/Advertising Fellow

Seth Adam graduated from Emerson College in May 2008 and was on of just 35 Emersonians selected to report from the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China where he interviewed athletes for publication in international media. Prior to his work in Beijing, Seth worked as a junior organizer for the John Edwards for President Campaign in 2007, dealing specifically with LGBT policy.

Lauren Mattia, Entertainment Media Fellow

Lauren graduated from Johns Hopkins University with an honors degree in the Writing Seminars in May of 2009. After packing her car with everything but her winter sweaters, she drove to Los Angeles from the beautiful state of New Jersey and began interning at GLAAD in September of 2009. While at Johns Hopkins, she immersed herself in Baltimore’s unique LGBT culture and took nearly every LGBT-focused class that the university offered. She finds that working with the Entertainment team at GLAAD is the best use of her devotion to the LGBT movement as well as her obsession with LGBT film, television, and music.

Amanda Morgan, Digital Media Initiatives Fellow

Amanda Morgan graduated in May 2008 with a BA in Creative Non-Fiction and a BFA in Photography, at Eugene Lang College and Parsons School of Design, respectively, both of which were conferred to her with honors. Prior to joining GLAAD, Amanda was the Vaid Fellow at the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force where she focused on people of color outreach for the Task Force’s survey of discrimination against transgender and gender non-conforming people. Amanda is also an avid storyteller and regular contributor to the Bi Women’s Newsletter.

Brian Pacheco, Spanish-Language Media Fellow

Brian Pacheco graduated in May 2009 with a B.A. in History from the University of California, Berkeley. As an undergraduate, he was involved in progressive student of color organizations at the campus and statewide levels. He also was one of the co-founders of the Unión Salvadoreña de Estudiantes Universitarios (U.S.E.U., the Salvadoran Student Union, which has chapters throughout California and in El Salvador), where he continues to work to incorporate LGBT voices and issues. Brian is fluent in Spanish and French, and is proficient in Portuguese.

Anna Wipfler, National News/Transgender Advocacy Initiatives Fellow

Anna Wipfler graduated from Yale University in June 2009 with a major in Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies.  While on campus she successfully advocated for expanding the University’s non-discrimination policy to include gender identity and gender expression.  For three years she also coordinated the annual Trans Awareness Week @ Yale program, drawing together gender rights scholars, activists, and artists to promote conversations about gender non-conformity.  Anna is very pleased to be starting her professional work in trans advocacy with GLAAD.  She is an active rugby player and enjoys all types of sports/games.

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Former Staff

Former Fellows

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