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Tahlib Britton

Tahlib Disney-Britton is Program Director of the Voices of Equality Program for Freedom to Marry. Disney-Britton most recently served as Director of Community Engagement at the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center. In that role, he had responsibility for local and national educational outreach in 16 states as well as Mazamitla, Mexico and Buxton, Canada. A member of the Freedom Center team for 10 years, Tahlib led the national communications campaign for the Freedom Center beginning in 1998 and culminating in 2004 with 200 million media impressions around the world.

Prior to joining the Freedom Center team, he served as Executive Assistant to the President of Northern Kentucky University but left the university after five years to follow the Freedom Center's vision of using Underground Railroad lessons as a bridge for today's racial divide.

Tahlib Disney-Britton is a graduate of Eastern Michigan University where he earned both his BA in Arts Management and MA in Communications, and has conducted doctoral studies at The Ohio State University. A native of Cincinnati, Ohio, and a practicing Roman Catholic, Tahlib has a son, Kai who is a linebacker for the Wilmington University "Fighting" Quakers. Most recently, on January 28, 2008 he became a newlywed when he married Greg Disney at Niagara Falls, Canada.

Email Tahlib at tahlib@freedomtomarry.org.