Our Team

Mariah Moore

Executive Director

Mariah Moore is a national transgender rights activist from New Orleans, LA.  Her work includes fighting to ensure equity, equality, and safety for the transgender community, especially Black transgender women. Mariah has worked tirelessly in New Orleans to bring awareness to communities that have been adversely affected by laws and policies that are discriminatory.

Mariah serves on the LGBTQ Task Force which was created by New Orleans Mayor, LaToya Cantrell. She also works with the CANS Can't Stand campaign, which is a campaign that was created to bring awareness to and hopefully abolish the crimes against nature law that has historically targeted LGBTQ people of color, specifically Black transgender women. Mariah is a Victory Empowerment Alumni, which is a program that identifies LGBTQ community members who wish to run for office and provides campaign training and support. Mariah is also involved with SONG, through the Lorde’s Werq! fellowship. Through sharing her lived experiences as well as the work she does at Transgender Law Center as a National Organizer, she continues to change hearts and minds so that all LGBTQ people can live free from fear.

Milan Sherry

Director of Community Support & Outreach

Milan Nicole Sherry (she/her/hers) is a New Orleans native and founding member of BreakOUT!, where she first became a youth organizer. In direct response to killings of Black transgender women, Sherry amplified the #BlackTransLivesMatter campaign and organized the first New Orleans Trans March, led by transgender and gender- nonconforming youths of color, and founded NOLA’s Trans March of Resilience. Milan has also helped the Department of Justice reduce racial and gender profiling by the NOPD and has contributed to a Human Rights Watch report linking discriminatory policing to HIV transmission. Recipient of the 2013 NOLA Unity Award and the 2015 Rising Star Award, presented by EQLA Quality, Milan has been involved with the American Bar Association’s Opening Doors Project and featured on PBS’ In the Life and in Philadelphia Magazine. She's a national board member of Positively Trans served as the co-coordinator/outreach specialist at the Trans Equity Project in Philadelphia and now is the Director of Community Support and Outreach at House OF Tulip.