Aaron Potenza

Aaron Potenza has an extensive background in advocacy and public policy. Currently working as a private consultant, he formerly served as Chair of New Jersey’s Transgender Equality Task Force, as a member of Governor Murphy’s transition team, as Policy Director for Garden State Equality from 2015-2019, where he worked to ensure passage of pro-equality legislation under both Republican and Democratic administrations, and as Manager of Strategic Initiatives for the New Jersey Coalition Against Sexual Assault. An educator and historian by training, he has taught courses on the histories of gender and sexuality at Yale University and Trinity College Hartford.