Denise - CenterLink's CEO.  Denise joined CenterLink after working in the private sector for over twenty years. She has extensive experience in team management, talent acquisition and program development. Prior to joining CenterLink, Denise was a corporate executive recruiter. Her background also includes on-air and production roles in the broadcast industry and senior retail management positions with Fortune 500 companies. 

Denise was born and raised in the Washington, D.C. area. Starting in the early ‘90s she was part of the Sophie’s Parlor Radio Collective, the longest-running women’s music radio show in the country. She also served as a stage manager, producer and sound crew member for numerous Pride events and Women’s Music festivals, and was a production assistant for “A Simple Matter of Justice”, the video of the 1993 March on Washington. She currently serves on a number of local non-profit boards and committees focused in the LGBTQ+ arena. Denise received her B.A. in Psychology.

Castelle - ActionLink's Policy and Advocacy Organizer.  Castelle joined the ActionLink team in June of 2021 as an intern.  She specifically focuses on delivering information to the LGBTQ+ community centers and supporting them in their policy and activism initiatives. 

Castelle recently graduated with BA's in both Theatre and Public Health. Her future plans include attending law school and continuing to grow her voice to support the communities that she feels passionate about.

She feels very honored to be working with CenterLink, and is excited to continue to learn and grow.

Tanya - ActionLink's Director of Policy and Advocacy. 

Tanya works as the Director of Policy and Advocacy for CenterLink; ensuring LGBTQ+ centers have a voice in the policies that impact their organizations and communities at the local, state, and national levels with a focus on advocacy, education, and organization. 

Prior to joining the CenterLink team in 2017, she spent three years serving as Lead Residential Services Coordinator at the nation's first and largest LGBTQ+ low-income senior housing facility. She was instrumental in developing and expanding their programming and advocacy services. 

Tanya is the proud founder of the Los Angeles LGBT Center's Senior Mobilization Squad; an association consisting of older adults living in Los Angeles County who are dedicated to protecting and expanding the rights of the LGBTQ+ community both locally and across the country. 

She received a degree in Administration of Justice with an emphasis on Sociology in December of 2019, graduating summa cum laude. Tanya also earned her Human Rights Consultant certification from the US Institute of Diplomacy and Human Rights in 2021.