Jonathan is an associate in Reed Smith’s Entertainment and Media team and a champion of LGBT+ (and particularly bi) inclusion firm-wide. He has spoken at numerous internal events with RS’s LGBT+ network PRISM, including RS’s first-ever bi-focused event in 2019, ensuring intersectionality was front-and-centre. Named the UK’s fourth most influential disabled person in 2020, Jonathan also ensured LGBT+/disability intersectionality at RS’s 2020 Disability Inclusion Summit. Having co-founded Bauer Media’s diversity forum, he has spoken across Bauer offices nation-wide, featured in videos/articles championing the importance of openness and trained senior management in LGBT+/intersectional inclusion. Jonathan is also a Trustee of the Miranda Brawn Diversity Leadership Foundation (and a judge of the charity’s LGBT+ and disability scholarships in 2021) and serves on INTA’s 2021 Presidential Task Force for DEI, championing inclusion across the IP sector. From 2019-21 he was the first LGBT+ (and first-ever) chair of the Commonwealth Children and Youth Disability Network, and in 2020 was named a Franco-British Local Leader.
