Who we are

Current Board of Directors

CASPIAN NASH

Caspian Nash (they/them) runs most of the day-to-day operations of BB Legal. They are a white, trans, nonbinary graduate of UC Irvine School of Law. As a law student, Caspian learned from local organizers by volunteering on many free legal support projects that involved coordinating legal work to support greater organizing goals. As a result of their focus on developing skills to serve trans clients rather than going into a traditional legal practice area, Caspian has worked on topics as diverse as immigration, conditions of confinement, discrimination in employment and public accommodations, tenants rights, name changes, and especially nonbinary gender markers. Caspian has been a law clerk with Transgender Law Center, Sylvia Rivera Law Project, the Los Angeles LGBT Center, and the ACLU of Southern California’s Jails Project. Caspian also helped organize UCI Law’s Transgender Communities and the Law Symposium in March 2018. In earlier years, Caspian studied creative processes and collaborative leadership as an aspiring theater director. Prior to law school, Caspian dabbled in tech startups, having grown up in a small city in Silicon Valley that experienced drastic change from the tech industry. When not working on BB Legal, Caspian enjoys outdoor activities, drinking copious amounts of coffee, and obsessing over their dog.

ALEX BINSFELD

Alex Binsfeld (they/them) is a white nonbinary queer person. They were born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area and graduated from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law in May of 2019 with a Social Justice Lawyering concentration. They have been engaged in transgender rights advocacy for nearly a decade, working as a student activist; operator at TransLifeline; law clerk, policy law clerk, and helpline volunteer at Transgender Law Center; law student representative at the Hastings Refugee and Human Rights Clinic; and member of the Hastings Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Working Group. They have also advocated for the rights of marginalized people as a volunteer at Homeless Legal Services, an Advocate at the Prisoner’s Advocacy Network, and a law student representative at the Hastings Workers’ Rights Clinic. They currently work as an Abascal legal fellow at the Transgender, Gender-Variant, and Intersex Justice Project (TGI Justice Project).

EDEN ANAÏ LUNA

Eden Luna (they/them) is a transfeminine nonbinary person. Luna is the Program Manager for the Los Angeles LGBT Center’s Transgender Economic Empowerment Project (TEEP), which offers holistic support for job seekers in need of legal name and gender marker changes, career-development skills, employment authorization document preparation, and advocacy in employment discrimination incidents. TEEP also offers “Trans 101” training to corporations, small businesses, shelters, schools, and law enforcement agencies to shift the movement towards trans-inclusive services. Luna also serves as a Councilmember for the Trans Advisory Council of the City of Los Angeles and works with the community to implement policies and procedures for the socio-economic equity of transgender, nonbinary, and intersex people in Los Angeles. Born and raised in Los Angeles, Luna grew up in a low-income migrant single-parent family and was well acquainted with the poverty and financial instability that faces many in migrant Latinx communities, especially single-parent family units. Transitioning with nearly no role models for non-binary people, they explored uncharted territory. They are advocate for transgender, nonbinary, and intersex communities, especially in the realm of immigration, economic justice, and decriminalization of poverty-based survival crimes. With expertise in career/finance coaching and a network of resources, Luna wants to bring power back to their communities one encounter at a time.

RILEY HEWKO

Riley Hewko (they/them) is a nonbinary, transqueer, Latinx activist, organizer, prison abolitionist, and reproductive justice lawyer focusing on issues of race, gender, sexuality, child welfare, incarceration, and healing. Their work centers anti-oppression and creative movement lawyering strategies. They are a 2011 graduate of University of Washington School of law and Gates Public Service Law Scholar. They are the founder of the Incarcerated Parents Project at the Washington Defenders Association in Seattle, WA and a founding board member of Surge Reproductive Justice. They have also served as an Equal Justice Works fellow at Legal Voice, an If/When/How fellow at the National Women’s Health Network, and a California Changelawyers fellow and staff attorney at the Transgender Law Center. Most recently, they helped launch a prison oversight agency at the Washington State Governor’s Office as the Gender Equity and Vulnerable Populations Specialist, supporting transgender, nonbinary, and intersex individuals and those who identify as LGBQ in Washington State prisons. They are currently an attorney at the Movement Voter Project, a contract policy analyst with Justice Strategies, and support various community groups on dreaming up decolonized policy efforts, such as the Alphabet Alliance of Color in Seattle, WA.

ANNEKE DUNBAR-GRONKE

anneke dunbar-gronke (they/them) is a queer, non-binary, genderfluid person who is dedicated to organizing for the liberation of all Black people and ensuring that our vision of liberation is one that deconstructs existing power structures and is reflective of Black people across gender, color, class, educational background, and region. They are a member of BYP 100, Law 4 Black Lives, and have been in struggle with various social justice groups, including Stand with Dignity and Nola to Angola in New Orleans, Reclaim Roxbury in Boston, the Harvard Prison Divestment Campaign and now Law 4 Black Lives DC. Prior to and during law school, beloved members of their community most often referenced a desire for legal support for three main issues: 1) workplace and housing discrimination against Trans/NB/GNC people; 2) acquiring land, space and resources for food sovereignty work and reparations; and 3) criminal legal defense services. To support these desires, anneke is tailoring their legal expertise to include tools that support organizing for QTBIPOC liberation, solidarity economy efforts, reparations and community participatory defense. In 2019, they graduated from law school. They currently work as a plaintiff's attorney by day, specializing in identifying causes of action to support racial and economic justice in Baltimore, and building out legal supports for reparations organizing by night. They are very excited to join Beyond Binary Legal's board and to be a part of building out tangible supports for TNBGNC people. They also are a Taurus sun, a Sagittarius rising and a Leo moon for those that care like they do.