Jason Landau Goodman, a Lower Merion native and former director of the Pennsylvania Youth Congress, is helping advance the LGBTQ+ movement to full equality, writes Ivey DeJesus for Penn Live.

Goodman has an undergraduate and a master’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania and is also a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. He is one of the founders of the Pennsylvania Youth Congress, the only LGBTQ youth organization in Pennsylvania on the state level. He spearheaded policy wins on both local and state levels for LGBTQ Pennsylvanians.

He helped enact Lower Merion’s LGBTQ nondiscrimination ordinance and has advocated for the implementation of similar ordinances in dozens of municipalities.

Now, he is tackling the latest major challenge for the LGBTQ+ community.

“One of the top challenges is in maintaining control of our narratives in the media and politics,” said Goodman.

“The forces that seek to divide our country, that build power and make money off of polarizing proxy battles between groups of people, need to be unraveled. I know that love and kindness can win if we are persistent and insistent.”

Read more about Jason Landau Goodman in Penn Live.

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