Education
Brown University.
Brown University.
Heng-Lehtinen is the elder child of lawyer Dexter Lehtinen and congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, and is the first openly transgender child of a member of Congress. While attending Brown University, he produced the documentary Free Within These Walls, about Cuban prisoners of conscience. Heng-Lehtinen was a field organizer for the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force.
Later, he worked as the Membership Director at Gender Justice Los Angeles, a grassroots organization that works to build the power of the transgender community in Los Angeles through community organizing and leadership development.
He also worked in fundraising at Liberty Hill Foundation and organized a transgender leadership development conference with the Transgender Law Center. He is now a professional fundraiser at GLAAD, an LGBT media advocacy organization.
At Brown University Heng-Lehtinen was a member of Queer Alliance.