Virginia M. Apuzzo is founder and current President of the Board of Directors of the Hudson Valley LGBTQ Community Center. She also serves as a Commissioner on the New York State Commission on Public Integrity.
Her experience includes executive service in the New York City, New York State and federal government, as well as the White House. In NYS she became the first openly gay person to be confirmed by the Senate as a Commissioner. In the federal government she was appointed Assistant to the President, and became the highest-ranking gay person ever to serve at the White House.
With over 35 years of activism in the LGBTQ community, she has served as Executive Director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force and founding member of numerous gay and lesbian national and local organizations including the NYC Gay and Lesbian Community Center.