A word about me…
My name is Mack (they/them). I grew up in the hills outside of Los Angeles, California surrounded by the arts. The newest member of a musical bloodline, I started playing music as a child, while also learning how to paint and write. In 2019 I graduated from the Frost School of Music at the University of Miami with a degree in Jazz Vibraphone Performance. I was introduced to photography in college and fell hard for its subtleties and emotiveness. In my last year of college I took a Constitutional Law class on a whim, after which I interned for a judge in Miami, taught music in prison and worked for a non-profit whose mission was to elevate women in the workplace. I applied and was accepted into Washington University School of Law in St. Louis, Missouri, where I met my life partner, Parth, and adopted two cats, Finn and Aster. After law school, we moved to Washington DC, where I currently work as a civil rights attorney at the law firm Kalijarvi, Chuzi, Newman & Fitch.
My personal and professional goals are rooted in liberation. As a non-binary, transmasc attorney, my dream is to increase access to gender-affirming care for trans and gender-noncomforming individuals.
(i who have died am alive again today,
and this is the sun's birthday; this is the birth
day of life and of love and wings: and of the gay
great happening illimitably earth)
—e.e. cummings
Photo by Jillian Anderson Photography.