About Sylvan Fraser Anthony (Edit profile)

Sylvan grew up in the state of Washington and received their B.A. in Linguistics from Reed College in Portland, Oregon. Sylvan first became involved with interACT as a legal intern after taking founder Anne Tamar-Mattis’s class at Berkeley Law. Before receiving their J.D. in 2015, they served on the Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law, & Justice and the California Law Review, and they co-ran the school’s chapter of If/When/How (then known as Law Students for Reproductive Justice). They joined interACT’s full-time staff in 2015 and assumed the role of Legal & Policy Director in 2022. Sylvan, who is queer and non-binary, lives in Portland with their husband and cats. They served for four years on the city’s police accountability body, known as the Citizen Review Committee, where they co-authored a report on the Portland Police Bureau’s use of force against anti-racist protesters during 2020. Their legal scholarship has been published in the California Law Review and the International Journal of Human Rights in Healthcare.