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In her role as donor relations officer, Amber will be applying her decades of fundraising experience to help people invest in the ACLU of Connecticut’s efforts to advance liberty, justice, and equity for all people in our state, especially those who have been most marginalized by the government.
As a firm believer in advocating for human rights, Jess Zaccagnino has driven her fellow students to the polls as an undergraduate, published research about authoritarianism as a law student, and pursued equity legislation at the
“Organizing is a critical vehicle to ensuring that directly impacted people are centered in all parts of policymaking."
Closure is just the first, minimum step. Any time Connecticut closes a prison, the state must also do these three things.
We need a robust Inspector General pursuing police accountability, and the challenges facing this role make clear that local and statewide elected officials also need to do more.
Here's what the four finalists had to say about police accountability and racial justice.