About Open Policy Forum

Open Policy Forum, the first public-facing project from our Gulf South queer and transfemme activist collective, is a collaborative platform to empower communities to engage meaningfully with state policy. With years of experience doing legislative work at the local, state, and national levels, we have deep insight into and strong opinions about the limitations of existing services. Open Policy Forum is designed to be the tool we wish we'd always had, connecting advocates within and across movements, streamlining tracking and analysis efforts, democratizing the legislative process, and putting the "public" back into public policy.

Who We Are

Corinne Green (she/they), is an ace, queer, transfemme activist from New Orleans, LA, who focuses on queer, trans, and harm reduction organizing and policy. Former President of Louisiana Trans Advocates, she's also done policy for Gov. Jon Bel Edwards, Transgender Law Center and Equality Federation. She has bachelor's degrees in French and International Studies from LSU and currently serves on the board of National Harm Reduction Coalition. State legislation she's passed includes the California Gender Recognition Act, Narcan decriminalization, syringe exchange authorization, and overdose Good Samaritan reform.

Persephone Karnstein (she/her) is a queer and trans penetration tester from San Francisco, CA. Active in the Bay Area organizing scene, she's previously worked for a trans healthcare clinic and the SF LGBT Center. A reformed astrophysicist with three unused degrees from Berkeley, she and her cat do their ethical hacking from the Transgender District in the Tenderloin.

Elizabeth Gelvin (she/her) is an organizer & student of abortion access, harm reduction, grassroots disaster response, and oral history. She designed and implemented the first practical support organization in Louisiana during her time with the former New Orleans Abortion Fund. Her writing appears in Groundswell: Oral History for Social Change, Antigravity Magazine, and Fighting Mad: Resisting the End of Roe V. Wade, and her thoughts can be picked apart in interviews in Vox, The Nation, Business Insider, and elsewhere.

Anonymous Collective Member #1 is an economic data scientist from New Orleans, LA.

Anonymous Collective Member #2 is a transfemme activist from New Orleans, LA.