Sunday, September 25, 2005
ACLU Executive Director, Anthony Romero
Romero took the helm of the American Civil Liberties Union in September 2001, a week before the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Under his leadership, the ACLU has continuously stood up for civil liberties and steadfastly maintained that it is possible to be both safe and free.
Romero is the ACLU’s sixth executive director and the first Latino and openly gay man to serve in that capacity. He came to the organization from the Ford Foundation ‘s Human Rights and International Cooperation Program, which he lead through a period of extraordinary growth transforming it into Ford’s largest and most dynamic grant-making unit.
Born in New York City to parents from Puerto Rico, Romero was the first in his family to graduate from high school. He is a graduate of Stanford University Law School and Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public Policy.
Romero is the ACLU’s sixth executive director and the first Latino and openly gay man to serve in that capacity. He came to the organization from the Ford Foundation ‘s Human Rights and International Cooperation Program, which he lead through a period of extraordinary growth transforming it into Ford’s largest and most dynamic grant-making unit.
Born in New York City to parents from Puerto Rico, Romero was the first in his family to graduate from high school. He is a graduate of Stanford University Law School and Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public Policy.
