M. Dru Levasseur

M. Dru Levasseur is an attorney, coach, and consultant on LGBTQ+ inclusion. He has been active in the LGBTQ+ equality movement for more than 25 years. Beginning in 2020, he served as Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for the National LGBTQ+ Bar Association. There he led the Association’s DEI consulting practice, Lavender Law 365®, which helped law firms, law schools, and companies put best practice standards for LGBTQ+ equity into effect, and founded its Trans in BigLaw Monthly Networking Program. He was a 2021–2022 Wasserstein Public Interest Fellow at Harvard Law School. Dru now runs his own coaching and consulting practice, Dru Levasseur Consulting, LLC. In April 2025 he launched the Trans Legal Professionals Networking Program, a peer support community for trans and nonbinary lawyers, judges, law students, and legal professionals hosted by the National Trans Bar Association. From 2009 to 2019, Dru was Senior Attorney and Transgender Rights Project Director at Lambda Legal, the nation’s oldest and largest legal organization committed to achieving full recognition of the civil rights of LGBTQ+ people and people living with HIV. There, he served as counsel in impact litigation and amicus briefs in federal courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court, and was instrumental in creating Lambda Legal’s Transgender Rights Project in 2013 and its Transgender Toolkit. Before joining Lambda Legal, he was the first staff attorney at the Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund and a law clerk in the Massachusetts Superior Court. In 2007 he co-founded the Jim Collins Foundation, a trans-led national nonprofit that funds surgeries for transgender people in need. He serves as Vice-Chair of the boards of the ERA Coalition and the Fund for Women’s Equality.