Masen Davis

In November 2017, Davis became the CEO for Freedom for All Americans.

After leaving TLC in 2015, Davis then served as interim co-director for Global Action for Trans Equality from 2015 to 2016, followed by the senior director of special projects for the Gill Foundation in 2017.

In 2012, he was selected as a Bohnett Fellow by the LGBTQ Victory Fund to attend Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government's Senior Executives in State and Local Government program.

In 2007, Davis was appointed Executive Director of the Transgender Law Center, where his work helped eliminate insurance exclusions for transgender Californians, as well as helped pass the School Success and Opportunity Act to improve access to facilities and activities for transgender California students. Under his tenure, TLC's prominence as a national transgender advocacy organization grew, while the staff grew from four to fourteen.

Masen contributed a chapter to Columbia University Press's 2006 book, Sexual Orientation and Gender Expression in Social Work Practice.

Davis came out as a transgender man in 1998 while in California. As of 2014, Davis had still been unable to update his Missouri birth certificate's name and gender marker.

He moved to California in 1995, joining the United Way of Greater Los Angeles, first as community investment officer and later as development director.

Davis earned his bachelor of arts degree at Northwestern University in 1993, living in Chicago from 1989 to 1995. He earned his masters of social welfare at the University of California Los Angeles in 2002.

Masen Davis (born March 29, 1971) is an American transgender rights activist who is currently the CEO for the Freedom for All Americans and was previously the executive director of the Transgender Law Center.