International POLICY EXPERIENCE

Ian has also been an LGBTQI+ Thematic Specialist at Amnesty International USA since 2013, where he serves as the LGBTQI+ working group’s point person for lobbying on Capitol Hill and its lead for addressing human rights issues along the U.S.-Mexico border, in Latin America, and across Eurasia and Sub-Saharan Africa. He has also served on the Advisory Board of the Sexuality, Gender, and Human Rights Program at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Carr Center for Human Rights and as the founding host/producer of the Radio Free Qtopia podcast.

EDUCATION & TEACHING

Ian has received his B.A. in History from Cornell and his M.A. and Ph.D. in History, with a Graduate Certificate in Women’s Studies, from Duke.  

He has held full-time faculty positions at Harvard, Tufts, and the University of Georgia. Since moving to the Washington, D.C. area, Ian has taught on urban politics and social justice at the Cornell-in-Washington Program and on LGBTQ+ studies at the University of Maryland. He has also held a fellowship at the Center for Transatlantic Relations at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS).

International POLICY EXPERIENCE

Ian has also served as the Board Chair of GLSEN’s Raleigh-Durham chapter and of the Committee for LGBT History, the professional association of LGBTQI historians in North America; as a longtime Board member of the Peace History Society; as a Research Analyst for Fund the People; as a Philanthropy Research Fellow at the University of North Carolina Wilmington; and as a fundraiser for AccessHealth MA, a Boston-based nonprofit for HIV drug research, treatment, and prevention.

BEYOND THE WORK

Beyond his work, his passions include soccer, sci-fi, puns, and weight training. He lives in the Washington, D.C. area with a loving brother-sister pair of chaos demons poorly disguised as cats. They run the show.