Raffi Freedman-Gurspan is the Director of External Relations at the National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE), where she oversees public education and field organizing operations. She was the first openly transgender staffer to work at the White House where her duties included serving as LGBT Liaison. She was employed at NCTE prior as Policy Advisor for the Racial and Economic Justice Initiative; Legislative Director to former Representative Carl Sciortino in the Massachusetts House of Representatives; and LGBT Liaison for the City of Somerville. Raffi has also worked with the Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition and Boston University in gender research work.