Mary L. Bonauto has served as the Civil Rights Project Director at GLAD since 1990. She has litigated in the state and federal courts of New England on many types of discrimination issues, including addressing anti-LGBTQ discrimination as discrimination based on sex, establishing parentage protections, strengthening student rights, free speech, and religious liberty, relationship recognition, and marriage defense. In 2015, she successfully argued before the US Supreme Court in the historic case Obergefell v. Hodges, which established the freedom to marry for same-sex couples nationwide. Mary serves on the Chief Justice’s Justice for Children Task Force and served on the Juvenile Justice Reinvestment Task Force (2019-20). Mary’s work has been recognized with numerous awards, including the 2014 MacArthur Fellowship. She is Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School. Mary graduated from Hamilton College and Northeastern University School of Law.