Goldstein leaving Garden State Equality post

Steven Goldstein, the Founder and Chairman of Garden State Equality, the gay rights advocacy group, announced this evening in a email to his membership that he is leaving his employment with the group to take a full time lobbying position for Rutgers-Newark.

One of the great joys of my career, along with founding Garden State Equality in 2004 and leading it since, has been teaching this semester at Rutgers Law School in Newark. I have always loved academia. As most of you know, I even returned to school in mid-career to study to be a rabbi, a lifelong aspiration from which I’ve been on leave to serve as Garden State Equality’s Chair and CEO. I’ll resume my rabbinic studies for certain. But now I have the chance work at a university full-time, as Rutgers-Newark has asked me to become Associate Chancellor for External Relations. I have accepted the offer. My last day as Chair and CEO of Garden State Equality will be Sunday, January 20th, our Inauguration Celebration Brunch.

Troy Stevenson will take over as Chairman and CEO effective January 12. Stevenson was GSE’s Managing Director and Goldstein’s deputy prior to becoming the field director of President Obama’s reelection campaign in Pennsylvania.