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Ethan Nadelmann is the executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance. In 1994, Nadelmann founded the Lindesmith Center, a drug policy institute created with the philanthropic support of George Soros. In 2000, the growing
center merged with another organization to form the Drug Policy Alliance, which advocates for drug policies grounded in science, compassion, health and human rights. 
Amy
Goodman is an award-winning investigative journalist and
syndicated columnist, author and the host of Democracy
Now!, airing on more than 840 public television/radio
stations worldwide. Goodman is the first journalist to
receive the Right Livelihood Award, widely known as the
"Alternative Nobel Prize" for "developing an innovative
model of truly independent grassroots political
journalism that brings to millions of people the
alternative voices that are often excluded by the
mainstream media." 
Angela Barstow is an attorney with the ACLU of Ohio and has assisted in a number of ACLU cases involving public records, free speech, and equal protection. Barstow has a B.A. in English with a minor in political science from Plattsburgh State University and an M.S. in broadcast journalism from Syracuse University. She received her J.D. from Cleveland-Marshall College of Law.
Sue Carter has been working with people living with HIV/AIDS for 20 years as a volunteer, a counselor, and social worker. For the past 17 years, she has been a member of the AIDS Resource Team at the Medical University of Ohio. She is a coordinator of the anonymous HIV test site, facilitates men’s and women’s support groups, and works closely with patients to link them with medical care, resources and support services. She is involved with the Northwest Ohio Peace Coalition and Toledoans Against the Death Penalty. She serves on the ACLU of Ohio board of directors, and was board president for 10 years.
Toni Clarke is a Professor of Law at Ohio Northern University Pettit College of Law, teaching Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Juvenile Law, Domestic Relations, and Entertainment Law. She is
a member of University Council and is on the Board of Directors of the ACLU of Ohio. Clarke has travelled the state to speak on civil liberties issues including juvenile justice reform, technology and social media in law enforcement, and privacy and free speech rights of youth on the Internet. She began her career in legal education at the University of Arkansas - Little Rock William H. Bowen School of Law. While in Little Rock, Clarke served on the Board of
Robert Cohen’s primary area of practice is immigration and nationality law. He has extensive experience in all aspects of business and family immigration procedures. In addition to his legal experience, he is also an instructor for the Legal Assistant program at Capital University. Cohen was recently appointed to serve as Vice Chair of the American Immigration Council and served as Chapter Chair of the Ohio Chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers Association from 2003 to 2005. He has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America in the area of Immigration Law every year since 1995, and is recognized by the publishers of Law & Politics and Cincinnati Magazine as an Ohio Super Lawyer.
Terri Enns is a Senior Fellow with Election Law @ Moritz, a Clinical Professor of Law for the Legislation Clinic and also teaches Legal Analysis and Writing on a regular basis. Prior to coming to Moritz, Enns served as Legal Counsel to the Ohio Senate Democratic Caucus, where she regularly delved into Ohio’s statutory oversight of campaigns and elections. She worked with election law both as it was being created and applied. 
Katherine Hunt Federle is the director of two interdisciplinary educational and research projects at the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law: the Center for Interdisciplinary Law and Policy Studies and the director of the Justice for Children Project. She teaches criminal law, family law, children and the law, foster care law, and issues in adoption law. She also supervises the justice for children practicum, a clinical course in which third-year law students represent juveniles under faculty supervision.
Jackie Ford is a partner with Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease, L.L.P. practicing primarily in the field of labor and employment law, with an additional practice in privacy issues. Ford handles all aspects of employment law, from policy development and training to defending Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charges and litigation. She develops and negotiates the full range of employment-related agreements and works with employers to conduct internal investigations of alleged discrimination and harassment. She also counsels companies regarding employment-related aspects of new technologies, social networking sites, and other emerging media. She is a frequent speaker on the full range of employment-law topics and issues concerning privacy, electronic communications, and social media. 
Adrienne Gavula is a social worker at the Columbus AIDS Task Force where she helps clients access medical care. Previous to CATF, Gavula worked as field organizer at the American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio where she worked extensively on youth organizing and gaining new volunteers and supporters by planning events throughout the state. In addition, Gavula currently volunteers her time as a facilitator for bulimia nervosa support groups at The Center for Balanced Living and as ACLU representative to the Freedom of Choice Ohio Coalition. Previously, she volunteered as a health educator at Planned Parenthood of Northeast Ohio. 
Mike Gaynier is a member of the ACLU of Ohio Cleveland chapter board. He is a passionate advocate for the Bill of Rights, and strongly supports vibrant, inclusive and diverse communities. Since moving to Cleveland from Ann Arbor, Michigan, he has spoken at numerous public forums on behalf of the ACLU. He has lobbied elected officials in Washington D.C. on government-sponsored torture, FISA, and immigrant rights legislation. He is president of the board of directors at the Home Repair Resource Center of Cleveland Heights, a non-profit housing advocacy group that assists homeowners and neighborhoods with a wide range of issues, including combating the negative impact of the foreclosure crisis.
David A. Goldberger is the Isadore and Ida Topper Professor Emeritus of Law at the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law, where he teaches a civil clinic practicum, Constitutional law, and a course on the First Amendment. Goldberger is a nationally renowned attorney and has presented cases two times before the U.S. Supreme Court. He joined the Ohio State University in 1980, after serving as legal and legislative director of the ACLU of Illinois. Prior to working at the ACLU, Goldberger was a staff attorney for the Legal Assistance Foundation of Chicago, specializing in law reform legislation. He also serves on the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe/Office of Democratic Institutions and Human Rights Panel on Peaceful Assemblies.
Scott Greenwood is a nationally known constitutional rights and civil liberties lawyer. Greenwood has been an outspoken advocate for First Amendment rights and police practices reform, particularly with use of force policies. He has been consistently listed by his colleagues in The Best Lawyers in America for fifteen years, in Ohio Superlawyers, and was named Ohio Lawyer of the Year 2003 by Lawyer’s Weekly. His practice focuses on complex and constitutional litigation in the federal courts. Greenwood lectures widely on constitutional rights, civil liberties, and complex litigation. He has served as general counsel to the national ACLU since 2006, and is the ACLU of Ohio Board of Directors national board representative.
James L. Hardiman joined the ACLU of Ohio in April 2010 as legal director; he oversees complex litigation and strategy on a wide range of civil liberties issues. Hardiman is recognized as a national leader in civil rights litigation and has served the Cleveland NAACP in a variety of significant volunteer leadership roles, including chairing their legal redress committee, serving as branch president on two separate occasions, and currently as first vice president. Hardiman received his undergraduate degree in business administration from Baldwin-Wallace College. While teaching at Cleveland’s Glenville High School, he attended Cleveland State University’s Cleveland Marshall College of Law.
Garry Jenkins is Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Associate Professor of Law at The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law and the Co-Director of the Program on Law and Leadership, a multifaceted education and development initiative to advance the theory and practice of leadership among lawyers. Prior to joining the Ohio State faculty, Jenkins was chief operating officer and general counsel of The Goldman Sachs Foundation. Before joining Goldman, Sachs & Co., he was an attorney with the New York law firm of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett. Jenkins serves on the governing boards of Haverford College and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Ohio.
Morris Jenkins is legal redress chair for the NAACP Toledo chapter. He is active with offender reentry initiatives, including Citizen Circle and the Key Initiative Focus (KIF) in Lucas County. He is also Toledo’s representative on the Ohio Juvenile Justice Reform Committee of Voices for Ohio’s Children. Jenkins received a Juvenile Justice Award from the League of Women Voters for his activities in juvenile justice and mediation.
Daniel T. Kobil is a Professor of Law at Capital University Law School in Columbus, Ohio, researching and publishing extensively on the subject of clemency, particularly as it relates to the death penalty. Kobil testified on clemency in 2001 before the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on the Constitution. He has also spoken to numerous professional groups, including the Ohio Judicial Conference and the Federal Bar Association for the Southern District of Ohio. Kobil has written for and been quoted in numerous periodicals including the Chicago Tribune, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and U.S.A. Today, and has had articles cited by various courts including the United States Supreme Court. He consults on litigation matters and is currently assisting in the representation of death-sentenced individuals in Tennessee as they prepare to seek clemency. 
Frank Kunstel currently serves on the steering committee for ACLU’s Akron area working group and on the ACLU of Ohio nominating committee. He received his Ph.D. from Kent State University and spent several years in public education, including as a visiting professor at the graduate level. He is recently retired from an executive position with a large Cleveland-area health care corporation. Kunstel is a respected community activist with a broad knowledge of social and political movements, focusing on national security, safety, and liberty. 
Jonathan Lykes is the co-founder and performance arts director for Performing Arts for Effective Civic Engagement (P.A.E.C.E.) where he mentors high school students on the south side of Chicago through poetry and skits. He is committed to educational equality, voters' rights and increased opportunities for all students, regardless of their socio-economic background. Lykes also helped establish Youth Voices for Justice, a statewide action group promoting student political activism in Ohio. Lykes was a featured speaker at the Governor's Conference on Increasing the High School Graduation Rate for African American Male Students in 2007 and was awarded the national ACLU student activist of the year award in 2008 for his work with youth. 
Louise Melling is the Director of the Center for Liberty at the ACLU. The Center, newly created, encompasses the ACLU’s work on reproductive freedom, women’s rights, lesbian gay bisexual and transgender rights, and freedom of religion and belief. 
Shane Morgan is the founder and director of TransOhio, whose mission is to serve the Ohio transgender and ally communities. Shane is currently a board trustee at Stonewall Columbus, serves as a steering committee member at the United Way of Central Ohio, a member of the Equality Ohio public policy committee, and as a local action team leader. He is also a fellow at the Center for Progressive Leadership, a program that focuses on providing the long-term resources and skills necessary for emerging leaders to become powerful political advocates for their communities.
Richard Saphire is a professor of law at the University of Dayton School of Law. Prior to joining the University of Dayton, He taught law at Oklahoma City University. He has twice been a visiting professor at the University of San Diego and has also taught at Northern Kentucky State University’s Chase College of Law. Involved with the American Civil Liberties Union for many years, he provides pro-bono work as a civil rights and liberties lawyer. Since 2002 he has served as co-counsel on Stewart v. Blackwell, a class-action voting rights lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio. Saphire has received the Service Award from the ACLU of Ohio. In addition, he has been a board member of The Other Place, a Dayton homeless shelter and is the recipient of Chase College of Law’s Distinguished Alumni Award.
Susan Scheutzow is Vice President and Chief Legal Officer of Southwest General Health Center, Middleburg Heights, Ohio since 2002 where she is responsible for all corporate legal services and administrative supervision of the Risk Management and HIPAA/Corporate Compliance departments and programs as well as serving as the Health Center’s Privacy Officer. From 1990 to 2002 she was a partner in large Cleveland law firms with a hiatus in 1997 and 1998 when she was a full time Visiting Faculty Member at Cleveland-Marshall College of Law where she also served as an Adjunct Faculty Member from 1988 to 2000. She had been named to The Best Lawyers In America (Woodward/White) for eight years and has been listed as a Leading Lawyer in Northeast Ohio by Inside Business for the past six years. She speaks and writes extensively on health care law topics, and authored the book “Ohio Health Care Provider Law” published by Banks Baldwin.
Mary Beth Tinker has dedicated much of her life towards protecting free speech. In 1965, she and other students in Iowa were suspended for wearing black armbands to school in protest of the Vietnam War. Assisted by the ACLU, the students won a landmark U.S. Supreme Court case in 1969, Tinker v. Des Moines, which ruled that students do have First Amendment rights in the public schools. Tinker is currently a registered nurse in Washington, D.C. and speaks frequently with students and teachers throughout the country. She volunteers with the Marshall-Brennan Constitutional Literacy Project at American University, the ACLU, We the People, Street Law, Civic Voices, the National Youth Leadership Forum and other civic education efforts.
Daniel P. Tokaji serves as an associate professor of law at the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law. He is also the associate director of Election Law @ Moritz, a web publication devoted to reporting information about changes in election law. His areas of expertise include voting rights, political equality, racial justice, and the role of the judiciary in democracy. Tokaji has litigated numerous civil rights and election law cases, including a successful challenge to an Ohio law requiring naturalized citizens to produce a certificate of naturalization if challenged at the polls (Boustani v. Blackwell). He currently serves on the boards of the ACLU of Ohio, the American Constitution Society, the Asian Pacific American Bar Association of Central Ohio, and the Lawyer’s Committee for Civil Rights.
Catherine Turcer is the director of the Money in Politics Project and legislative director for Ohio Citizen Action. She has co-authored a number of campaign finance studies and provides regular commentary to Ohio newspapers. Turcer was the chief lobbyist for the Voter’s Right-to-Know Act of 1999 and received the Spirit of Democracy Award in June 2006 from Ohio Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell for her advocacy of full disclosure in the political arena, which was instrumental in creating more robust campaign finance laws. She earned her B.A. in clinical psychology and gerontology from Alfred University in Alfred, New York and completed graduate work in social group and research at the University of Connecticut.
Kim Welter is the director of programs and outreach at Equality Ohio, joining the organization in 2008 after serving as the executive director of Equality Toledo. As an elder in the Presbyterian Church, Welter works to educate the faith community about the importance of having an open and affirming faith environment. A graduate of the University of Michigan, she received her secondary teaching certificate through the University of Findlay and her M.A. in education from the University of Toledo, where she taught composition for three years.
