Evan Wolfson founded and led Freedom to Marry, the campaign that won marriage in the United States, and is widely considered the architect of the movement that led to nationwide victory in 2015. In 1983, Wolfson wrote his Harvard Law School thesis on gay people and the freedom to marry. During the 1990s he served as co-counsel in the historic Hawaii marriage case that launched the ongoing global movement for the freedom to marry, and has participated in numerous gay rights and HIV/AIDS cases. Wolfson earned a B.A. in history from Yale College in 1978; served as a Peace Corps volunteer in a village in Togo, West Africa; and wrote the book, Why Marriage Matters: America, Equality, and Gay People's Right to Marry, published by Simon & Schuster in July 2004. Citing his national leadership on marriage and his appearance before the U.S. Supreme Court in Boy Scouts of America v. James Dale, the National Law Journal in 2000 named Wolfson one of "the 100 most influential lawyers in America." Newsweek/The Daily Beast dubbed Wolfson "the godfather of gay marriage" and Time Magazine named him one of "the 100 most influential people in the world." In 2012, Wolfson received the Barnard Medal of Distinction alongside President Barack Obama.

Thalia Zepatos has over 30 years’ experience in campaign strategy and messaging. She worked for over a decade in the US movement to win marriage, and served as Freedom to Marry’s Director of Research and Messaging for five years. She is widely recognized as the “message guru” who led the marriage movement’s collaborative shift in messaging, resulting in exponential growth in public support for marriage that paved the way to four successful referenda battles and eventually a Supreme Court victory.

Cameron Tolle is a political strategist with 15+ years of experience building and winning grassroots campaigns for marriage and LGBTQ+ equality. Since 2018 at Freedom to Marry Global, he has advised and trained activists and LGBTQ leaders in 30+ countries on campaign development, messaging, communications, digital and campaign planning to advance marriage, decriminalization and LGBTQ+ acceptance.

Amy Mello has nearly 20 years experience working on campaigns to expand LGBT equality. She has served as Field Director for five statewide campaigns to win marriage for same-sex couples, including three years working to protect Massachusetts’ first-in-the-nation marriage rights from legislative attempts to repeal the law or place it on the ballot for public referendum. In addition to Massachusetts, she has helped to lead marriage campaigns in Connecticut, California, Rhode Island and Maine, where she led field and voter targeting programs for the country’s first-ever popular vote victory for marriage.