LJ Vogel, a financial services
representative for New York Life in
Long Island, is keenly aware of the
economic challenges facing the LGBTQ
community. LJ has experience helping
queer and trans folks plan for financial
hurdles, including gender-affirming
surgery, legal name changes, adoption,
and surrogacy.
A graduate of St. Johns University, LJ
tutored youth at a community homeless
shelter as part of the school’s Ozanam
Scholars Program. While in college, Vogel
LJ Vogel
New York Life,
Long Island General Office
launched the Social Justice Exchange,
an independent student-run website
where students share their perspectives
on current events both on and off
campus.
He later traveled to Puerto Rico to learn
more about the experiences of people
on the island who were facing financial
and environmental hardship. LJ strives to
use his background in finance to uplift
disenfranchised people and help them
build generational wealth.
LJ has also used his voice to stand up
legislative attacks LGBTQ youth, including
when he spoke and at a conference at
the University of Massachusetts Amherst
in 2016. During his remarked, Vogel
discussed the harmful effects of antitrans
discrimination and dispelled other
transphobic narratives.
Ahead of the 2021 school year, Vogel
helped kick off a local school supply drive.
He is now co-facilitating a fundraiser
to help raise money for caretakers and
patients living with dementia at the New
York Memory Center.
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