Ryan R. Thoreson

Ryan Thoreson is a legal anthropologist and human rights activist. He is currently a fellow in the LGBT Rights Program at Human Rights Watch, where his work focuses on the rights of LGBT youth, particularly in the United States and the Philippines. Ryan is also an adjunct assistant professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, where he teaches a course on the law and politics of LGBT rights in the United States. Prior to his current positions, Ryan clerked for the Honorable Scott M. Matheson of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit and was a research fellow at OutRight Action International. He is the author of Transnational LGBT Activism: Working for Sexual Rights Worldwide (University of Minnesota Press, 2014).