Hector Vargas
Deputy Director of Education & Public Affairs
CONTACT: National Headquarters, 212-809-8585
Hector Vargas is the Deputy Director of Education & Public Affairs for Lambda Legal, the oldest and largest national legal organization committed to achieving full recognition of the civil rights of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, transgender people and people with HIV.
Before joining Lambda Legal, Vargas was a state legislative lawyer with the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, where he worked with state and local activists and elected officials on legislation to protect LGBT people. Previously, he was an assistant director with the American Bar Association in the Section of Individual Rights and Responsibilities, and prior to that, he was a national student organizing director with the National Association for Public Interest Law.
A 1993 graduate of the University of Georgia School of Law, Vargas received a bachelor's degree in political science and Spanish from the University of Georgia Franklin College of Arts and Sciences.
