Ensuring the success of AT&T championing diversity while driving AT&T Return on Investment (ROI), executing on Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender (LGBT) initiatives and leveraging relationships to develop employees personally and professionally.

LEAGUE provides a supportive environment for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender employees and allies to develop leadership and professional skills. We add value at AT&T by appreciating and promoting diversity in the company and community where we live and work.

LEAGUE at AT&T was the first Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) employee resource group (ERG) established in corporate America. Founded in 1987 as a charitable membership organization, LEAGUE at AT&T was comprised only of individual chapters, with the first being established in Denver.

In 1992, AT&T encouraged LEAGUE at AT&T chapters to form a national organization which happened that year in Orlando. Three years later, AT&T split into 3 new entities in 1995 and decided to let LEAGUE at AT&T also spin off as well. Lucent Technologies became the home of EQUAL! (Now known as Equal! At Alcatel-Lucent) and NCR became the home of LEAGUE@NCR. Those who remained at AT&T with the communications business kept the name, LEAGUE at AT&T.

In 1996, LEAGUE at AT&T began funding LEAGUE Foundation to provide financial resources to LGBT youth to attend institutions of higher learning. Since its inception, LEAGUE Foundation has awarded 93 college scholarships totaling more than $157,000 to self-identified lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender (GLBT) graduating US High School Students based on the following achievements: grade point average; significant involvement in community service; and acceptance to an accredited US college or university. Today, the Foundation is a national scholarship fund reaching all 50 states, with the greatest share of its funding still coming from AT&T and LEAGUE at AT&T, in addition to individual and corporate contributions.

In 2005, AT&T announced a $16 billion merger with SBC Communications, creating the world’s premier communications and networking company. Following the merger, Spectrum (SBC’s LGBT ERG) merged into LEAGUE at AT&T and then AT&T decided that its other two legacy LGBT ERGs, New Angle and GLBT-PRIDE, representing BellSouth and Cingular Wireless employees, respectively, should also merge into LEAGUE at AT&T. These mergers were completed in 2006 and 2007 and today’s LEAGUE at AT&T was born, with a rich heritage from four unique organizations with individual histories and cultures.

Today, LEAGUE at AT&T proudly serves our one AT&T, its employees, customers and the communities in which we operate.

The governing body of LEAGUE at AT&T is the National Officers and Board.  LEAGUE at AT&T Chapters are represented by the Chapter Congress Chair, who is a Board Member.

Board of Directors

CEO John Cramer
COO Joshua Hampshire
CFO Theresa Bates
Membership Officer  David Kirby

Public Relations Officer Debbie Lang
Chapter Congress Director Mark Patterson
Communications Director Mark Barfield
Fundraising Alan Beckstead
LEAGUE Foundation John Klenert
Membership Director Robert McCarrier
Public Affairs Michael Norton
Strategy Director Ron Green
Technology Director Alex Pfeifer
Union Liason  Philip Shamas
Workplace/Mentoring Director Meghan Birdseye

To contact any of these members, please visit our Contact Us page.

• Support and create opportunities for youth and education.
• Provide leadership development and networking opportunities, within the organization and across the corporation.
• Engage membership, volunteers, and allies by providing meaningful opportunities for engagement and service.
• Recognize outstanding leadership and extraordinary accomplish-ments.
• Support AT&T programs, ERG initiatives and champion the LEAGUE at AT&T brand.
• Leverage and support the new Chapter Congress Chair position and the national At-Large Chapter leaders.