Carol Rose, Executive Director of the ACLU Massachusetts, will speak on “Post 2020 Election Review” at the League of Women Voters First Friday Forum, February 5, 2021 at 9:30AM, a virtual presentation.

Carol Rose, a Lexington resident, is executive director of the ACLU of Massachusetts. A lawyer and journalist, Carol has spent her career advocating for human rights and civil liberties both in the United States and abroad, including Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nepal, Japan, Sri Lanka, Israel, the West Bank and Gaza, Northern Ireland, and Vietnam. Prior to assuming her position at the helm of the ACLU of Massachusetts in January 2003, she worked as an attorney at the Boston law firm of Hill & Barlow, where she specialized in First Amendment and media law, intellectual property, civil rights, and international human rights law. She clerked for U.S. District Court Judge Patti Saris. She holds degrees from Stanford University, the London School of Economics, and Harvard Law School.

The American Civil Liberty Union started in 1920, with one branch in Massachusetts.  Civil rights at the time were less civil, with fewer rights than today’s.    

The ACLU has been involved in voting rights, reproductive rights, gender rights, freedom of speech rights, and other rights.  It is non-partisan; it is a non-profit.