Chicagoan Becomes Lambda Legal Co-Chair

Chicagoan Becomes Lambda Legal Co-Chair
Copyright by The Windy City Times
2007-03-07

Lambda Legal has announced the appointment of a new co-chair, Chicago’s Roy Wesley of Chicago, to its national board of directors.

Wesley, who joined Lambda Legal’s board of directors in 2003, lives in Chicago and is the chief financial officer of Fermalogic, Inc., a research-driven industrial biotechnology company that develops technology to improve pharmaceutical manufacturing. “As a third generation Japanese American, I experienced discrimination very early in my life,” Wesley said in a statement. “As an infant, I was sent to an internment camp and have since struggled with prejudice because I am also a gay man. But as I look back, I can see clearly how things have gotten better, and I am honored to become a co-chair of Lambda Legal’s board of directors because I know that with each day, Lambda Legal gets us one step closer to ending legal discrimination in our country.”