[2] Pittsford attended California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, earning a bachelor's degree in political science.
At that time, the LGBTQ rights group was working to overturn Proposition 8 in California, which banned same-sex marriage in 2008.
[3][1][7] The organization grew from 30 people at the first happy hour meeting in San Francisco[8] to over 15,000 queer women and allies in 33 cities in 2016.
[2] The organization also hosts three annual conferences, and has created scholarships with the help of a grant from Marc Andreessen and Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen and a Kickstarter campaign.
[13][14] Pittsford was recognized as a "soldier of social change... on the front lines of the culture wars" by San Francisco Magazine in 2015.