Anne Tamar-Mattis is an American attorney,

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(formerly Advocates for Informed Choice). She currently serves as interACT's Legal Director.

Career

Anne Tamar-Mattis spent six years as the Director of the National Youth Talkline at Lavender Youth Recreation & Information Center, a national peer-support line for

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youth. She became the first Program Director for the

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in 2001. In 2003 she took a hiatus to attend law school and graduated from the

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in 2006. Tamar-Mattis founded interACT with the support of fellowships from

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(2006) and

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(2008). She has been an adjunct professor at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law since 2008 where she teaches Sexual Orientation & the Law.

Selected bibliography

Selected publications include: * * * * * * * * * * *

Awards and recognition

In 2010, Anne Tamar-Mattis was recognized as an ''Unsung Hero'' by KQED. 2011 saw her elected to the

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, and in 2012 Anne was awarded the Barbara Nachtrieb Armstrong Award for Outstanding Advocacy on Behalf of

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for Women.

Personal life

Tamar-Mattis lives with her partner,

intersex Intersex people are individuals born with any of several sex characteristics including chromosome patterns, gonads, or genitals that, according to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, "do not fit typical bina ...

activist and medical doctor, Suegee Tamar-Mattis. They are the parents of two children.Who we Are: Anne Tamar-Mattis
, Advocates for Informed Choice In 2012, they appeared in the documentary feature,

Intersexion ''Intersexion'' (2012) is a documentary about intersex people. The film was researched and presented by activist Mani Mitchell, New Zealand's first "out" intersex person.

References

External links

Website of interACT
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