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LGBTQ LEADERS
40under40

CLAIRE to the Tampa Bay-St.Pete area from California more than eight years ago,
Claire Elisan is passionate about her love of community. Since moving

she has become a go-to person in the Tampa Bay and St. Pete LGBTQ+
ELISAN community. Project No Labels — her idea for an all-inclusive nonprofit
organization — took its first breath four years ago and has been going
nonstop since. Besides the success of her nonprofit, she was also a grand
marshal for Come Out St. Pete Pride parade and named volunteer of the
year in 2018 by the Tampa Bay Rays.
BY 2030,
Project No Labels would have 100 chapters around the
world, including places where LGBTQ+ are criminalized.
Communities will find a sanctuary in PNL and will have Photo Credit Watermark Magazine
the support they need to thrive. Me? Traveling the world SHE, HER, HERS
grooming leaders w/ my beautiful partner & pets. AGE 36

DUSTIN FINKLE

Leading efforts for corporations, fundraising for nonprofits and staying BY 2030,
fit with a purpose through community fitness opportunities are all ways I hope that privilege is in
Dustin Finkle gives back. “It’s exhausting, rewarding and fulfilling work,” check, our underrepresented
says Dustin. “People often comment on how much work I do outside of are represented, and our
my day job - and I can honestly say, it doesn’t feel like work because I love awareness goes beyond the
it.” letters LGBTQI+.

Photo Credit Chloe Jackman
HE, HIM, HIS
AGE 39

MATT FOURACRE

Matt Fouracre is a key member of LPAC’s “small but mighty”
three-person team, doing critical work in the community, especially in the
context of the U.S. 2020 general election cycle. Matt previously managed
client relations and public policy at Out Leadership, a global LGBT+
business network.

BY 2030,
my work at LPAC will have helped make sure that LGBTQ
women are viewed as a credible, important political Photo Credit Humberto Martínez
constituency. HE, HIM
AGE 28

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