Drew is a queer advocate & organizer, nonprofit program builder, and recovering attorney originally from Omaha, Nebraska.

Drew began his advocacy at home by founding the Queer Nebraska Youth Network, which provided social events, confidential online discussion, and connections to resources to over 1,000 LGBTQ+ young people. He later became the Human Rights Campaign’s first-ever Nebraska Field Organizer, leading the state’s work to change laws, policies, hearts, and minds. After law and policy school on the East Coast, Drew returned to the Midwest to join the LGBTQ Immigrant Rights Initiative at the National Immigrant Justice Center in Chicago. Representing LGBTQ+ asylum seekers from West Africa, Central America, and the Caribbean, he helped his clients achieve release from detention and permanent immigration relief in the United States. Most recently, as a Senior Program Officer at Rainbow Railroad, Drew worked on a number of post-relocation support programs for forcibly displaced LGBTQ+ people in the U.S. and Canada.

As a Planning Manager at Lambda, Drew contributes to the implementation & coordination of the strategic plan and provides process and project management for organization-wide initiatives.

Drew holds a B.S. in Sociology from Brown University, an M.P.P. from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. In his free time, Drew enjoys nerding out about competitive trading card games, rollerblading on Chicago’s lakefront path, listening to Midwest emo, and snuggling with his little black cat Aloy.