Join the League of Women Voters of Lexington at the last First Friday for this year on June 5, 2026, 9:30-11:00 AM in Room 237 at the Lexington Community Center to hear from Traci Griffith, ACLU Massachusetts, on Voting Rights, Where do we go? 

The ACLU, like the League, is non-profit and non-partisan. Their mission is to defend and expand civil rights and personal freedoms. They do that in three ways: their legal team goes to court to protect rights such as free speech, due process, and equal protection under the law; their policy team works with elected officials at the state and local levels; and their field team does community organizing and public education. 

Traci Griffith is the Racial Justice Program Director at the ACLU of Massachusetts, where she leads statewide initiatives advancing equity and civil rights. She previously served on the National ACLU Board of Directors, including roles on the Executive Committee and as National Board Secretary, contributing to organizational governance and national strategy on constitutional and civil liberties issues.

Traci’s career spans academia, journalism and advocacy. She is a former Associate Professor and department chair, her teaching and scholarship center on the First Amendment, media law, ethics, and race and gender representation. She continues to teach as an adjunct and provides cultural competency and bias mitigation training to organizations, nonprofits and corporate clients.

Earlier in her career, Traci worked as a correspondent and national editor for the Associated Press, reporting on complex legal and governmental issues and contributing to national editorial decision making.

Traci holds a J.D. from Notre Dame Law School, an M.S. in Journalism from Florida A&M University and a B.A. in Political Science from DePaul University. She lives in Cambridge with her chihuahua Bessie Coleman.

This program is the ninth in the 2025-2026 LWV First Friday Forum series hosted by the League of Women Voters to promote awareness and understanding of public policy issues. There will be time for Q&A after the program. LexMedia will record the program.

For more information about the forum or other activities of the League, go to https://my.lwv.org/massachusetts/lexington/calendar. To see previous First Friday Forums, go to Past Events in the Calendar and search for "First Friday". All Lexington League forums are free and open to the public.

The League of Women Voters is a non-partisan organization dedicated to the principles of self-government established in the Constitution of the United States. The League works to promote political responsibility through informed and active participation of citizens in government. All League forums are free and open to the public. For more information about the League go to https://my.lwv.org/massachusetts/lexington.