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Speakers
David Cole is a professor at Georgetown University Law Center, a volunteer staff attorney for the Center for Constitutional Rights, the legal affairs correspondent for The Nation, and a commentator on National Public Radio's All Things Considered. A graduate of Yale University and Yale Law School, he clerked for Judge Arlin Adams on the Third Circuit. He has litigated many First Amendment cases, including Texas v. Johnson and United States v. Eichman, which extended First Amendment protection to flagburning. New York Times columnist Anthony Lewis has called him "one of the country's great legal voice for civil liberties today," and former CIA Director James Woolsey has called David's new book, Enemy Aliens: Double Standards and Constitutional Freedoms in the War on Terrorism (2003), "the essential book in the field." In 2004, Enemy Aliens was awarded an American Book Award and the Hefner First Amendment Prize. David's first book, No Equal Justice: Race and Class in the American Criminal Justice System, was named Best Non-Fiction Book of 1999 by the Boston Book Review, best book on an issue of national policy in 1999 by the American Political Science Association, and awarded the Alpha Sigma Nu prize from the Jesuit Honor Society in 2001. He has received numerous awards for his public interest advocacy, including from the National Lawyers Guild, the ABA Section on Individual Rights and Responsibilities, the Thomas Jefferson Center for Freedom of Expression, the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, the American Muslim Council, and Trial Lawyers for Public Justice.
Matt Howes is the ACLU's National Internet Organizer. He manages the 200,000 strong ACLU Action Network, the online community for champions of freedom. He writes weekly action alerts, creates websites, manages Flash projects and evaluates new technologies. A graduate of MIT, Matt lives in Washington, D.C.
Allen Gilbert is executive director of the ACLU of Vermont. He has a background in education, and came to the ACLU through his involvement in a successful education equity lawsuit. Gilbert was chair of his local school board when it became a plaintiff in the ACLU-Vermont's "Brigham" lawsuit. The decision in the case resulted in a comprehensive overhaul of Vermont's education funding system. Gilbert led a statewide advocacy group supporting the equity principles of the "Brigham" decision. He was also president of the Vermont School Boards Association. Gilbert's professional background is in journalism, teaching, and research. He was a reporter and then city editor at the Rutland, Vt., Herald, and later served as assistant editor of the Sunday Rutland Herald-Times Argus. He was a freelance writer for many years, and taught writing at several Vermont colleges and American studies at a German university. For 14 years he was a principal in PressKit of Montpelier, a communications and public policy research firm. Gilbert has been a commentator on Vermont Public Radio since 1999. Gilbert holds a bachelor's degree in history from Harvard, and a master's degree in education from the College of William and Mary.
Wendy Kaminer is a member of the national board of the American Civil Liberties Union and a senior correspondent for The American Prospect. She is also a contributing editor at The Atlantic Monthly. A lawyer, social critic, and former Guggenheim Fellow, she writes about law, liberty, feminism, religion, and popular culture. Her latest book is Sleeping with Extra-Terrestrials: The Rise of Irrationalism and Perils of Piety. Other books she has written include True Love Waits: Essays and Criticism; It's All the Rage: Crime and Culture; I'm Dysfunctional, You're Dysfunctional: The Recovery Movement and Other Self-Help Fashions; and A Fearful Freedom: Women's Flight from Equality. Kaminer's articles and reviews have appeared in many other publications, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Nation, and Newsweek, and her commentaries have aired on National Public Radio. Before embarking on her writing career, Kaminer practiced law as a staff attorney in the New York Legal Aid Society and the New York City Mayor's Office.
Catherine Yonsoo Kim is a staff attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union National Legal Department where she works with the Racial Justice working group. She is currently involved in litigation surrounding the government's No Fly List, racial profiling, education, indigent defense reform, and juvenile justice issues. Catherine began working on racial justice issues for the National Legal Department in 2003 as the Marvin M. Karpatkin Fellow. Prior to that, she clerked for the Honorable Carlos F. Lucero on the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver. Catherine obtained her law degree from Columbia Law School in 2002.
Lawrence Kupers
1971: A.B., major in Philosophy, minor in Literature
1975: M.A. in Philosophy
9/1975 to 6/1985: Taught Mathematics, Social Studies, History, Literature at Los Angeles High Schools
1979: M.A. in Sociology
1983: Ph.D. in Philosophy;
1988: J.D.
10/1988 to 9/1989: clerked for the Honorable Harry Pregerson of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
10/1989 to 2/1991: associate, Hufstedler, Kaus & Ettinger, Los Angeles, CA
taught high school and college courses in philosophy, literature, sociology, history and mathematics
3/1991 to 9/2003: Assistant Federal Defender in the Northern District of California in San Francisco and Oakland; Senior Litigator from 1998 to 2003; Managing Attorney of the Oakland branch office from 2000 to 2003
10/2003 to 9/2004: Visiting Special Counsel to the United States Sentencing Commission and the Office of Defender Services;
10/2004 to present: Staff attorney, Public Defender Service, Washington, D.C.
Nancy Murray has been the director of the ACLU of Massachusetts' Bill of
Rights Education Project since its founding in 1987. Holding a BA from Harvard
University, and a B.Phil. and Ph.D. in Modern History from Oxford University, she
has considerable experience as a teacher, scholar and social activist in
Great Britain and Kenya as well as the United States. She taught for seven years
in the University of Nairobi, and then directed a nation-wide program to
combat racism in the media at London's Institute of Race Relations. She is a
member of the editorial committee of the Institute's journal Race & Class. As
director of the Bill of Rights Education Project, she has encouraged teachers,
students and the general public to think critically about the difficult issues
being debated in society and the courts, and to work for a future in which civil
liberties and civil rights will be safeguarded and enlarged. She co-founded
and directed Project HIP-HOP (Highways into the Past: History, Organizing and
Power), and over an eight-year period took students South and to South Africa
to explore the history of the civil rights movement and struggle against
apartheid and the role young people have played in movements for racial justice.
Since 9/11 she has worked through the ACLU of Massachusetts' Civil Liberties
Task Force to build a new movement for civil liberties and civil rights across
the Commonwealth. She is the author of numerous articles on issues of civil
liberties and civil rights and the biannual publication, Bill of Rights
Network. Recent publications include "Sharing the Story of the Movement: The Project
HIP-HOP Experience," in Putting the Movement Back into Civil Rights Teaching
(Teaching for Change, 2004), "Profiled: Arabs, Muslims, and the Post-9/11
Hunt for the 'Enemy Within'" in the award-winning publication edited by Elaine
Hagopian, Civil Rights in Peril: The Targeting of Arabs and Muslims (Haymarket
Books, Pluto Press 2004), and "The State of Our Civil Liberties: a Post 9/11
Health Check," New Politics, Summer 2004.
Larry Vogelman serves as the legal director of the New Hampshire Civil
Liberties Union in addition to his practice at Nixon, Raiche, Manning,
Casinghilo & Leach, in Manchester, N.H.. Mr. Vogelman has practiced law for
over thirty years and was a partner at Shuchman, Krause & Vogelman, in
Exeter, N.H. and before that the Deputy Director of the New Hampshire Public
Defender. He is also a member of Board of Governors, as well as several
committees of the New Hampshire Bar Association, a former member of the
Board of Directors of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers,
a member of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America, and the New
Hampshire Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and New Hampshire Trial
Lawyers Association. He also serves on the Federal Courts Advisory
Committee and is a member of the Board of Bar Examiners. Before moving to
New Hampshire, Mr. Vogelman was a faculty member at the Cardozo School of
Law in New York City and was also law partners with Barry Scheck.
Patrice Webb is a national field organizer for the American Civil Liberties Union's Washington Legislative Office. As a member of the ACLU's Safe and Free team, Webb works with activists, elected officials and coalition partners from across the country on civil liberties issues. Prior to joining the ACLU, she worked for the successful TRUTH campaign, which was the brainchild of the late Governor Childs of Florida. She planned national tours, and located and trained youth spokespersons. She then went on to work for the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation as a program coordinator, where she was responsible for planning and facilitating fundraising events for the CBC Spouses Scholarship program. Webb was also a principal member of the public relations firm Pinnacle Strategic Partners Group. There, she worked with a number of clients on issues related to social justice, campaign finance, telecommunications, education and strategic philanthropy. She has also worked on a number of federal campaigns, including as the campaign manager for a congressional candidate opposing Katherine Harris in Florida. Webb is part of the grassroots organizing arm of the legislative office. In her travels, she educates, organizes and supports the actions of average voting citizens, as well as elected officials, to protect civil liberties. Her primary focus has been raising awareness and opposition to controversial provisions of the Patriot Act and other post-9/11 government policies that infringe upon civil liberties and civil rights. Webb also has been active in grassroots coalition building, and passing local government resolutions in opposition to the most egregious provisions of the Patriot Act. The state of Hawaii, in part due to Webb's efforts, has adopted such a resolution. Webb graduated from Towson University.
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