Lee Badgett

Badgett has testified as an expert witness in legislative matters and litigation (including as an expert witness in California’s Prop 8 case). Her work as a “public professor” includes analyzing public policies, consulting with regulatory bodies, briefing policymakers, and writing op-ed pieces. Badgett has been a consultant, advisor, or speaker on LGBTI issues at the World Bank, UN Development Programme, USAID, U.S. Department of State, OECD, ILGA, businesses, Inter-American Development Bank, Asian Development Bank, and other agencies and organizations. She has participated in many international forums related to human rights and economic development for LGBTI people, and she is a fellow of the Salzburg Global Seminar LGBT Forum. She a member of the Consensus Panel on the Well-Being of Sexual and Gender Diverse Populations at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, and serves on two standing committees of the American Economics Association and on the board of Wellspring Cooperative Corporation.