Ames Simmons

Ames Simmons is a queer white transgender man who holds a senior fellowship at Duke University School of Law and lectures at George Washington University’s graduate program in LGBT Health Policy & Practice. His previous roles include policy director at National Center for Transgender Equality, policy director at Equality North Carolina, and seventeen years as assistant general counsel at a healthcare company assisting uninsured patients with Medicaid. Ames attended Agnes Scott College, Emory University Law School, and George Washington University’s Health Policy & Practice graduate certificate program. His work is grounded in community-based anti-racism, anti-violence, and anti-poverty efforts to achieve justice for transgender people and collective liberation.