Dylan Waguespack

Treasurer

Contact: dwaguespack@houseoftulip.org

Dylan Waguespack is the Public Policy and External Affairs Director at Cyndi Lauper’s True Colors United, a national nonprofit working to end LGBTQ youth homelessness. Before joining True Colors United, Waguespack was the owner and principal of Mercury Media, a political communications and advocacy firm in Baton Rouge and Washington, D.C. In 2019, he coordinated the lobbying strategy on the first ever transgender-specific legislation to pass the U.S. House of Representatives, H.Res. 124 by Congressman Joe Kennedy. In Louisiana, he was creative director of the 2018 Louisiana Constitutional Amendment 2 campaign, a statewide ballot measure which required unanimous juries for felony convictions, and led media relations and digital components of the 2017 Louisiana Justice Reinvestment effort to successfully pass ten landmark criminal justice reform bills — together, the most progressive package of criminal justice reforms passed by a state legislature in modern US history. 

Before opening his firm, Waguespack served as Executive Director of Louisiana Progress, the progressive movement-building partnership where he started his career as an intern in 2011. He currently serves as Board President for Louisiana Trans Advocates, a nonprofit working on the state level to advance the core human rights of self-determination and expression for all trans, nonbinary and gender nonconforming people in Louisiana. 

Waguespack is a proud New Orleanian, a 10th generation Louisianan, and a graduate of Ben Franklin High School. He is currently working on his postsecondary education at Prescott College, where he’s studying how communities threatened by climate diaspora can use political movement-building to achieve cultural and economic resilience.