Happy Women’s History Month! We’re continuing our #WeCanWednesday with one of our newest additions to the sdACLU squad! We’re proud to announce hiring of Imperial Valley native Crystal Quezada to its staff.
March 7, 2018
Police Chief Shelley Zimmerman made history when she was named San Diego’s first female chief in 2014. As San Diegans and the San Diego Police Department plan for her retirement and prepare to welcome her successor, there are the inevitable reflections on Chief Zimmerman’s career and legacy.
February 22, 2018
Monica has been with us for over a year now and is deeply embedded in the work that she does with us. A San Diego native hailing from Southeast San Diego, Monica toils tirelessly to fight against injustices that she sees by heading the local bail reform efforts in San Diego...
February 21, 2018
How fitting is it that we’re featuring Christie Love Hill on Valentine’s day?? Very.
Christie manages to balance fighting for the rights of people of color and women daily and a full life outside of the workplace with her family and faith.
February 14, 2018
When crusading journalist and anti-lynching activist Ida B. Wells published an editorial in the Memphis Free Speech on May 21, 1892, challenging the most popular political justification for lynching by declaring that “Nobody in this section of the country believes the old threadbare lie that...
February 13, 2018