Having previously served has the Vice President of Communications at LGBTQ+ Victory Fund and LGBTQ+ Victory Institute, Elliot Imse leads LGBTQ+ Victory Institute as Executive Director. Prior to joining Victory, Elliot was Director of Policy & Communications at the DC Office of Human Rights (OHR), a government agency dedicated to eradicating discrimination in the District of Columbia. In that capacity, he worked with a multitude of communities to prevent discrimination through well-informed policy and community awareness. Before OHR, he focused on messaging and communications strategy for the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD). He currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Harvard Gender and Sexuality Caucus – an organization that organizes and advocates for Harvard’s LGBTQ+ students, faculty, staff and alumni. He has a Master in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and a Bachelor degree in Journalism & Mass Communications from the University of Wisconsin – Madison.