Zach Wahls

Zach Wahls is a writer, speaker, LGBTQ rights advocate, and a sixth-generation Iowan. He is the founder of Iowa City Learns, an educational service dedicated to elevating academic achievement in Iowa City, and is currently the program coordinator for the Iowa City chapter of Summer of Solutions. His writing has appeared in the Daily Beast, the Des Moines Register, and the Daily Iowan, and the video of his testimony before the Iowa House Judiciary Committee about his life growing up with two moms has been viewed over eighteen million times, making it YouTube's most-watched political video of 2011. Zach lives in Iowa City.