Tony Varona is the Dean and M. Minnette Massey Professor of Law at the University of Miami School of Law. Previously, he was a Professor of Law, a Vice Dean, an Associate Dean for Faculty and Academic Affairs, and an S.J.D. Program Director at American University in Washington, D.C. Before that, Dean Varona served as the General Counsel and Legal Director for the HRC. Earlier in his career, he was an associate at Skadden Arps and at Mintz Levin, and he was an honors program enforcement attorney at the Federal Communications Commission. Between 2001-2002, Dean Varona was a Harvard Law School Washington Public Interest Fellow. Dean Varona received an LL.M. from Georgetown University in 1996, a J.D. from Boston College Law School in 1992, and an A.B. from Boston College in 1989. He has served on the board of directors for GLAAD, HRC, the Alliance for Justice, the New York Advisory Board for the American Constitution Society, and he was founding chairperson of the AIDS Action Legal Advisory Council. He currently sits on the Stonewall Museum board of directors and was a founding co-chair of the Stonewall National Museum and Archives National Advisory Council. He has lectured widely and has appeared as a legal commentator on major national media outlets. He is the recipient of the 2009 Hugh A. Johnson, Jr. Memorial Award from the Washington Hispanic Bar Association, and he was honored by American University with the 2014 Outstanding Teaching in a Full-Time Appointment Award, the 2007-2008 Teacher of the Year Award, and with the 2018 Egon Guttman Casebook Award with Professors Andrew Popper and Mark Niles. Lawyers of Color Magazine named Dean Varona to its 2020 Power List, and in 2014 the magazine named him to its “50 Under 50 List.”