The interACT Team
interACT is a dedicated team of attorneys and advocates, intersex people and allies. We are the only intersex-led policy organization in the United States.
Each member of our staff works remotely, keeping our costs low and our lives balanced. Our incredible network of over 60 interACT Youth advocates keeps the work moving nationwide, and beyond.
Erika Lorshbough, B.A., J.D. (they/she)
Executive Director
Erika is an intersex advocate and activist for civil and human rights. Most recently, Erika served as deputy director for policy at the New York Civil Liberties Union and led the organization’s extremely successful statewide legislative program advancing principles of freedom, justice, and equality. Along with their experience in program and organizational management, Erika brings two decades of heart work in community organizing and social action. Their law and policy experience has spanned the areas of gender and sexuality, voting rights and democracy, economic justice, criminal legal system reform, and the rights of people experiencing detention and incarceration. Erika completed their undergraduate studies in psychology and public policy at UCLA and the Luskin School of Public Affairs and received their J.D. from Brooklyn Law School. In addition to numerous public interest awards and legal fellowships, Erika has been honored as a Rising Star by the Brooklyn Law School Alumni Association, and was named one of the Best LGBTQ+ Lawyers Under 40 by the National LGBTQ+ Bar Association. Erika is a certified restorative justice practitioner, an adoring caretaker of plants and animals (and people!), and a fan of wandering and getting lost from time to time.
Sylvan Fraser, JD (they/them)
Legal & Policy Director
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 in 2013 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 L