Marc E Solomon was born on November 12,1966 and is a gay rights advocate.
12 Facts About Marc Solomon
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Marc Solomon was the national campaign director of Freedom to Marry, a group advocating same-sex marriage in the United States.
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Marc Solomon was born and grew up in Kansas City, Missouri.
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Marc Solomon graduated from the Barstow School in 1985 and Yale College in 1989.
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In 2004, Marc Solomon earned a master's degree in public administration from Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government.
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Marc Solomon worked on Capitol Hill for Senator Jack Danforth, Republican of Missouri, in two different stints, first as a legislative correspondent and then as legislative assistant.
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Marc Solomon joined Danforth in St Louis and served as vice president of St Louis 2004, a non-profit organization to make improvements to the St Louis region by 2004, the centennial of the St Louis World's Fair.
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Marc Solomon began his work on marriage equality as a volunteer for the Massachusetts Freedom to Marry Coalition in 2001 and worked as a lobbyist for the group in 2002 as it helped defeat a constitutional amendment that would ban gay couples from marrying.
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In January 2006, Marc Solomon took the helm of MassEquality and led the organization in defeating a constitutional amendment that would have barred same-sex couples from marrying.
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In 2009, following the passage of Proposition 8 in California, Marc Solomon left MassEquality to become marriage director for Equality California.
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In 2010, Marc Solomon joined Freedom to Marry to serve as national campaign director, managing all of the organization's campaign programs and helping to grow the organization from a $2 million to a $13 million effort over the course of three years.
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At Freedom to Marry, Marc Solomon played leadership roles in winning marriage in multiple states, including New York, Illinois, Minnesota, Washington, and Maine.