Pauline Green - Executive Director

Pauline Green (she/her) is a Black and Filipino queer woman who proudly serves as Executive Director at The Alliance for LGBTQ Youth. She has led The Alliance as the organization’s chief executive since 2017. Pauline knows that LGBTQ youth are innately powerful and hold the potential to transform our society and our world into one of true liberation. She knows that queer and trans youth are brilliant and whole and are the experts of their own lives and experiences. She is committed to amplifying the voices of LGBTQ youth and protecting their human and civil rights.

Pauline is a licensed attorney. She has dedicated her career to working with and for young people who face systemic oppression and marginalization, with a specific focus on Black and Brown youth and LGBTQ youth. She is a former middle-school teacher and previously served as an AmeriCorps member in education in post-Katrina New Orleans. Prior to joining The Alliance, Pauline was the Director of Community Initiatives at Miami Homes for All (formerly Miami Coalition for the Homeless) where she led the development of Miami-Dade County’s youth homelessness initiative and co-authored the county’s comprehensive plan to prevent and end youth homelessness. She serves on several non-profit and community boards committed to advancing equity and justice, including the Miami-Dade County LGBTQ Advisory Board, Black Girls Matter Miami, Engage Miami, Miami-Dade Homeless Trust Continuum-of-Care, and the Miami Foundation’s Community Advisory Board. Pauline graduated cum laude from the University of Miami School of Law where she was a HOPE Public Interest Scholar with a focus in human rights and children and youth law. She holds a BA in English Writing from Loyola University New Orleans. 

P.S. Pauline was born and raised in New Orleans and spent her childhood summers  wild and free with her cousins at grandma’s in rural Mississippi.  She loves to eat well, dance freely, and snuggle on the couch with her husband Damion and their wire fox terrier/fur baby, Dexter!