Leslye Huff focuses on labor and employment law in general practice in the City of Beachwood, OH. Ms Huff has advocated for social justice throughout her life, working in leadership roles on boards and commissions such as the Northern Ohio Hate Crimes Work Group, the National Lesbian and Gay Law Association, and Judge Ronald B. Adrine’s Racial Fairness Project Board.  Before receiving her Juris Doctorate, Ms Huff served as law clerk at the Center for Constitutional Rights where she performed crucial research for the Mumia Abu Jamal death penalty appeal and founded the LesBiGay Law Students Association.

Ms Huff earned her law degree at Cleveland-Marshall College of Law where she received the Richard C. Schaefer Memorial Award for Outstanding Clinician in Employment Law and earned he Judge Lloyd O. Brown Fellowship.  She has presented papers on LGBT advocacy at John Marshall College of Law of Chicago, Antioch College, the University of Iowa College of Law, and Yale University School of Law. 

Since the early 1980’s, Ms Huff has pressed for a dialogue within the African-American community regarding heterosexism and speaks truth to power with a velvet glove regarding homophobia and chronic racial fear-response.  Leslye Huff champions the cause of LGBT right to marry and published an article titled “Black Ministers Declare War Against Lesbians and Gay Men” in the Call and Post and “Marital Bliss Under the Constitution: Thoughts on Opposite-Gender Marriage, the African American Community, and LesBiGay Rights.”

Ms Huff has maintained a twenty-two year committed relationship with her best friend and life-partner, Mary Ostendorf, MS.N., RN. As partners for life, they have reared two sons, Daudi Hashim Huff and Kahlil Seren Huff, and are the proud grandparents of three children.

Professor McCready received his Ph.D. in Social and Cultural Studies with a designated emphasis in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from the University of California, Berkeley. His research and writing focuses on institutional marginalization, Black subjectivities, identity formation, urban education, masculinities, queer youth, community arts, and West African dance and culture. He is currently preparing a book-length manuscript on the ways gender and sexuality compound the marginalization of Black gay male students in an inner-city high school. In addition to being an academic, he is an accomplished dancer specializing in movement styles that fuse West African and modern dance. He feels extremely fortunate to be teaching at his alma mater with students and colleagues committed to anti-oppressive education and social justice.

A regular on the national singer/songwriter circuit, Doria Roberts creates songs that have been described as "a delicious, bohemian blend of folk, jazz and pop". Doria’s versatility as a songwriter and entertainer is never lost whether she is performing solo or with her band.As a part time activist, Doria has committed herself to inspiring compassion, social action and change through her music and various projects. She has been inspired by Nina Simone’s "Mississppi Goddamn", Odetta’s "Another Man Done Gone", Janis Ian’s "Society’s Child, Billie Holiday’s "Strange Fruit", John Lennon’s elegy "Working Class Hero", and almost everything by Ani DiFranco, and Patti Smith. The personal experience sometimes becomes political and the stage sometimes becomes a forum-a space not only to entertain, but to also inform.