About
My name is Mack (they/them). I grew up in the hills outside of Los Angeles, CA surrounded by the arts. I started playing music as a child and spent my days writing silly poems instead of learning cursive. I was introduced to photography in college and fell hard for its subtleties and emotiveness. In 2019, I graduated from the Frost School of Music at the University of Miami with a degree in Jazz Vibraphone Performance and a minor in anthropology.
In my last year of college—in the throws of intense anxiety about my future and career—I took a Constitutional Law class on a whim, and loved it. To me, the study of law was subjective but structured, intellectual but not detached. The following year, when I wasn’t studying for the LSAT, I interned for a judge in Miami and taught music and poetry to incarcerated men in a nearby prison. I applied and was accepted into Washington University School of Law in St. Louis, Missouri. There, I met my life partner, Parth (he/him), and we adopted two cats, Finn and Aster. After law school, we moved to Washington DC, where I currently work as a civil rights attorney and trans rights advocate.
My personal and professional goals are rooted in liberation. As a non-binary & transmasc attorney, my dream is to increase access to gender-affirming care for trans and gender-noncomforming individuals. The fight for LGBTQ+ rights is modeled after the Black Liberation Movement. Our tactics, language, and values are directly influenced by the Black and brown revolutionaries who, decades ago, wrote the playbook on resistance and radical advocacy. True freedom requires collective liberation. In the words of Marsha P. Johnson, “No pride for some of us without liberation for all of us.”
“Before I die, I will see our community given the respect we deserve. I’ll be damned if I’m going to my grave without having the respect this community deserves. I want to go to wherever I go with that in my soul, and peacefully say: I’ve finally overcome.”
— Sylvia Rivera
Pictured: Mack (right) hugging Parth (right) at their engagement celebration in 2023.
Photo by Jillian Anderson Photography.