Board of Directors

2026 Board of Directors

PRESIDENT Carol Gonzalez (she/her)
president@capitollgbtq.org
VICE PRESIDENT Anthony Reyes (he/him)
vice.president@capitollgbtq.org
OPERATIONS DIRECTOR Evan Fern (he/him)
operations@capitollgbtq.org
TREASURER Colleen Herrmann (she/her)
treasurer@capitollgbtq.org
EXTERNAL AFFAIRS DIRECTOR Mel Cosio (she/her)
external.affairs@capitollgbtq.org
MEMBERSHIP DIRECTOR Maren Bick-Maurischat (she/her)
membership@capitollgbtq.org
EVENTS DIRECTOR Alfonso Gomez (he/him or she/her)
events@capitollgbtq.org
COMMUNITY OUTREACH DIRECTOR Eve Banas (they/she)
community.outreach@capitollgbtq.org
COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR Ignasio Castillo (he/him)
communications@capitollgbtq.org
INTERN/FELLOWS LIAISON Annika Olsen (she/her)
interns.fellows@capitollgbtq.org
FELLOWSHIP DIRECTOR Kyle Johnson (he/him)
fellowship@capitollgbtq.org

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Thank You Past Presidents!

2024-2025 Natalia Garcia
2022-2023 K. Jones
2019-2021 Alina Hernandez
2017-2018 Biswajit “Bish” Paul

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Founding Board of Directors (2017)

PRESIDENT Biswajit “Bish” Paul
VICE PRESIDENT Carrie Holmes
OPERATIONS DIRECTOR Nicole Restmeyer
TREASURER Brandon Bjerke
LOBBYIST LIAISON Dharia McGrew
MEMBERSHIP DIRECTOR Adali Hernández
EVENTS DIRECTOR Ryan VanZuylen
COMMUNITY OUTREACH DIRECTOR Erica Porter
COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR Deepen Gagneja
FELLOWS & INTERN LIAISON Jesse Gilgoff
MEMBERS AT LARGE
Evan Minton, Charles Lawlor, John Vigna, Sean Connelly