Kyle S. Rapiñan (they/them/theirs) is an Assistant Attorney General at the Office of the New York State Attorney General (OAG), Civil Rights Bureau, where they enforce laws that protect all New Yorkers from discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, religion, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, military status, source of income or disability. Using federal, state, and local civil rights laws, such as the Voting Rights Act, the Fair Housing Act, the Civil Rights Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act and other landmark laws, the Bureau investigates and prosecutes discrimination in a variety of areas.Prior to OAG, Kyle worked at the NYC Commission on Human Rights, where they focused on transgender and gender non-conforming rights, racial justice, and disability rights in housing, public accommodations, and employment for nearly five years. 

Kyle also ran their own law practice, helping adults and minors change their name and update their various identification documents and has helped form small businesses (LLCs and PLLCs).

Kyle was also the Director of Survival and Self-Determination at the Sylvia Rivera Law Project, where they worked alongside low-income transgender and gender non-conforming people of color for gender self-determination and liberation - by securing name changes, updated ID documents, and health care procedures under New York State Medicaid. 

Before law school, Kyle founded a youth-led arts venue, Queer Youth Space. 

Kyle graduated from Northeastern University School of Law and the University of Washington.