Meg York

Meg York, Esq. (she/her) is Chief Legal and Policy Officer for COLAGE, the only national organization dedicated to connecting and supporting children with LGBTQ+ parents and caregivers. Meg leads COLAGE’s work on parentage protections, access to LGBTQ+ family building, marriage equality, and inclusive schools. Prior to joining COLAGE, Meg served as Chief Counsel, LGBTQ+ Family Law and Policy at Family Equality, as Lead Clinical Attorney and Professor of Law at Vermont Law and Graduate School, and in private, solo, and public defense practice, representing children and parents in high-stakes family law matters. In 2023, Meg was named one of the National LGBTQ+ Bar Association’s 40 Best LGBTQ+ Lawyers Under 40.

• Children: 3

• Family-building journey:  My wife and I have three donor-conceived children. She gave birth to our first, and I gave birth to our second two. After our first child was born, I went through a second parent adoption process to secure our legal connection. Between our first and second children’s births, our state updated its parentage laws and we were able to take advantage of this new affirming process to secure pre-birth orders for our second and third child. Today, same-sex parents in our state have a third option for securing their families: confirmatory adoption. 

• Parenting advice: Lead with love. We are all just doing the best we can, fumbling our way through. If we lead with love, we’ll be doing something right.