In response to COVID-related school closures across the country, homeschool organizations like the conservative evangelical-affiliated Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA) are responding by recruiting parents trapped by fear and circumstance.
Heron Greenesmith, Esq. is the former Senior Research Analyst for An umbrella acronym standing for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer or questioning. Learn more justice here at PRA and a policy attorney with over a decade of LGBTQ advocacy experience. Currently the Deputy Director of Policy at the A term used for someone whose gender is not (exclusively) the one they were assigned at birth. Learn more Law Center, Heron is also adjunct faculty at Boston University School of Law and an Editorial Board Member at the Bulletin of Applied Trans Studies. They are a co-founder of BiLaw and the Polyamory Legal Advocacy Coalition, and live in Boston.
