Diana Adams

Why you should listen

Diana Adams is the founder of the Chosen Family Law Center, a nonprofit providing legal support services for LGBTQIA, polyamorous and other underserved families. They got their start in LGBTQIA legal activism in 2007 and now split their time between Germany and New York, working as a leader within an international network of lawyers advocating for protections for these families beyond borders.Adams is also a cofounder of Polyamory Legal Advocacy Coalition, which works on legislative advocacy for those in consensually non-monogamous relationships and non-nuclear families. This group drafted model ordinances for multi-partner domestic partnership that have passed into law in three Massachusetts cities and has also developed various city-level non-discrimination protection laws based on relationship structure, as well as corporate non-discrimination model provisions.