NYAC's Board of Directors is composed of individuals from across the United States, who bring a diverse blend of personal and professional backgrounds and experiences. The Board affirmatively seeks applications from youth, people of color, and people of transgender experience. The following individuals are currently Directors of NYAC.

JESÚS CHAPA-MALACARA (Brooklyn, New York) has been involved in social justice work since he was a child, and LGBTQ organizing for seven years. Among his community service and volunteer work, he¡s served as a board member of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation¡s Youth Advisory Board and a co-coordinator of the LGBTQ Co-operative at Yale University, and currently serves on the board of directors of Yale GALA: the LGBT Alumnae/I Network. Most recently, Jesñs has worked as co-director and production manager of MIMA Productions (a performance art production company) and as a consultant to Jerusalem World Pride. He currently works as a modern dancer and independent consultant in New York City, and holds a B.A. in political science from Yale University (2004). Jesñs was born in Monterrey, Mexico, and grew up in Kansas City, Missouri.

CAEDEN DEMPSEY (Washington, D.C.) manages youth organizing with Advocates for Youth, an organization that is dedicated to creating programs and advocating for policies that help young people make informed and responsible decisions about their reproductive and sexual health. Previously, Caeden worked with the United States Student Association (USSA) as the first Director of their LGBT Student Empowerment Project. In that position Caeden trained students around the country in direct action and electoral action organizing. After USSA, Caeden joined the National Center for Transgender Equality as the organization's Field Director.

MAYA MARCEL-KEYES (Chicago, Illinois)

HARPER SELDIN (Charlotte, North Carolina) serves as a board member for Time Out Youth (www.timeoutyouth.org), the only Charlotte organization that serves gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and questioning youth ages 13-23.  Harper is a member of Time Out's Speakers Bureau, a program that allows LGBTQ youth and straight allies to present their diverse experiences to the greater Charlotte community. At Time Out's South Eastern Regional Conference he introduced the program's keynote speaker, Kate Bornstein. He is also an online peer educator for Youth Resource (www.youthresource.com), a project of Advocates for Youth by and for LGBTQ youth. In that capacity he also co-facilitated a workshop at the February 2006 Ryan White National Youth Conference on HIV & AIDS, "Safety Last: The War on Condoms." He is currently attending high school in Charlotte, where he is working on a continuous basis to improve the resources for LGBTQ youth in his school.

LAURA HART (College Park, Maryland)