[4] She served as director of external relations at the National Center for Transgender Equality, based in Washington, D.C.[6] She is a longtime advocate and public policy specialist on matters concerning human rights, gender, and LGBT people.

[7] Freedman-Gurspan received her Bachelor of Arts in political science and Norwegian with a Concentration in Nordic Studies from St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota in 2009.

[10] After graduating from university in 2009, Freedman-Gurspan joined the Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition (MTPC), where she worked on legislative and policy issues.

[12][13] Through her work with the MTPC and as Somerville LGBT Liaison she met then-Massachusetts State Representative Carl Sciortino, a Medford Democrat.

[4] She played an instrumental role in helping Sciortino pass the transgender civil rights bill in November 2011, which was signed into law by then-Governor Deval Patrick in January 2012.

Her work included criminal justice and incarceration reform, immigration detention conditions, housing and homeless shelter policies, and sustainable economic development opportunities for transgender people in the United States.