Anthony Romero
| Anthony D. Romero | |
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 Photo by Richard Corman |
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| Born | July 9, 1965 New York City, New York, United States |
| Occupation | Executive Director of the ACLU |
| Parents | Demetrio Romero (father) Coralie Romero (mother) |
Anthony D. Romero is the American executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union.
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[edit] Early life
Romero was born in New York City on July 9, 1965 to Puerto Rican parents Demetrio and Coralie Romero. He was raised in the Bronx.
[edit] Education
Romero was the first member of his family to graduate high school. He graduated from Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs in 1987 and from Stanford University Law School, and is a member of the New York Bar. He was a Dinkelspiel Scholar at Stanford University, a Cane Scholar at Princeton, and a National Hispanic Scholar at both institutions.
[edit] American Civil Liberties Union
Anthony Romero became executive director in September 2001, a week before the September 11, 2001 attacks. He is the first openly gay man and the first Hispanic director of the civil liberties institution. In his time as the executive director he has nearly doubled the organization's budget and increased its staff by a similar amount.[1]
In his capacity as ACLU head, he has been involved in opposition to several policies taken under the rubric of the Bush administration's 'War on Terror'. Referring to the August 17, 2006 federal court declaration that the "Terrorist Surveillance Program" was unconstitutional, Romero called the court's opinion "another nail in the coffin in the Bush administration's legal strategy in the War on Terror".[2]
[edit] Works authored by Romero
- In Defense of Our America: The Fight for Civil Liberties in the Age of Terror. William Morrow, 2007. ISBN 0-06-114256-5.
[edit] Recognition
In 2005, he was named one of TIME Magazine's 25 Most Influential Hispanics. Additionally, TIME has called him "The Champion of Civil Rights."[3]
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- ACLU Biography
- PBS Biography
- Time - Anthony Romero
- NNDB Profile
- Hispanic Magazine - Driven By Liberties
- Freedom to Backstab: Anthony Romero Defends his Record as Head of the ACLU - New York Magazine, February 19, 2007
- ACLU v. ACLU - The Nation, February 5, 2007
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- 1965 births
- Living people
- American people of Puerto Rican descent
- American civil rights activists
- LGBT rights activists from the United States
- LGBT writers from the United States
- LGBT Hispanic and Latino American people
- LGBT people of Puerto Rican descent
- Princeton University alumni
- American political writers
- American lawyers
- People associated with the American Civil Liberties Union
- People from the Bronx
- Stanford Law School alumni
