CONCENT COUNTS!
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NCSF Concent Counts Project Director
Judy Guerin

Judy Guerin is a well-known activist, writer, speaker and educator on issues of sexual freedom and gender expression and has been dedicated to activism on these issues for over 20 years. She is a long-time member of the BDSM/leather/fetish community and currently directs the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom’s Consent Counts Project to decriminalize BDSM. She was one of the first women to start teaching cross-dressing in the 1980’s and is a proud former pro domme.

She has presented at numerous national and international conferences, including the World Congress of Sexology, the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality, The American Society of Sex Educators, Counselors and Therapists, Creating Change, the International Foundation for Gender Education and the National Organization for Women and has authored numerous articles on sexual freedom and gender expression.

She is the former Executive Director of the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom and a former board member of the Woodhull Freedom Foundation and GenderPAC. She is a former steering committee member of the National Policy Roundtable of GLBT & HIV/AIDS groups and an advisor to the European Union on issues of sexual freedom, gender expression and GLBT issues.

Richard O. Cunningham, B.S., M.A., J.D., has advocated for over 30 years on issues of gender, race and sex. He has played a leading role in landmark legal cases. He is senior international trade partner at Steptoe & Johnson, LLP in Washington, D.C. Dick is currently advising on legal and policy aspects of the Consent Counts initiative.

Dick has extensive speaking experience and has presented at the World Trade Organization, the European Union, the American Bar Association, numerous universities and international trade meetings and conferences, the Leather Leadership Conference, Creating Change, and numerous BDSM/poly/swing groups.