Virginia (Ginny) Apuzzo
President of the Board of Directors
Ginny is a native New Yorker whose professional political experience, both in New York and in Washington, DC, as well as her decades of activism for LGBT causes, makes her the ideal leader for the Hudson Valley LGBTQ Community Center project.
Her experience includes executive service in the New York City, New York State and federal government, as well as the White House. In NYS she became the first openly gay person to be confirmed by the Senate as a Commissioner. In the federal government she was appointed Assistant to the President, and became the highest-ranking gay person ever to serve at the White House.
With over 35 years of activism in the LGBTQ community, she has served as Executive Director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force and founding member of numerous gay and lesbian national and local organizations including the NYC Gay and Lesbian Community Center.
Ginny is a graduate of the College of New Paltz, State University of New York (B.S. in Urban Education); and has advanced education toward her doctorate in Urban Education at Fordham University in New York. She has also been awarded an Honorary Doctor of Law from Queens College of the City University of New York.