About the ACLU of Georgia
The ACLU of Georgia comprises two separate corporate entities, the American Civil Liberties Union of Georgia, and the ACLU Foundation of Georgia. The American Civil Liberties Union of Georgia and the ACLU Foundation of Georgia are statewide organizations with the same overall mission, and share office space and employees. The ACLU of Georgia has two separate corporate entities in order to do a broad range of work to protect civil liberties.
About the ACLU of Georgia FOUNDATION
The American Civil Liberties Union is a national non-partisan organization with more than 280,000 members dedicated to preserving and defending the principles embodied in the Bill of Rights. While the ACLU is often perceived as one large organization, it is actually a network of state affiliates associated with a national office.
Mission
The purpose of this Association shall be to advance the cause of civil liberties in Georgia, with emphasis on the rights of free speech, free press, free assembly, freedom of religion, due process of law and to take all legitimate action in the furtherance of such purposes without political partisanship.
Foundation Board
Elizabeth Tanis, President
Anthony Don George, M.D., Vice President
Cherry Spencer-Stark, Secretary
Ken Stilwell, Treasurer
Joe “Seyoum” Lewis, Affirmative Action Officer
Melanie Eyre
Leslie Park
Paul Fancher
Scott Saulson
About the ACLU of Georgia Affiliate
The ACLU of Georgia is one of 52 affiliates and has more than 6,000 card-carrying members and donors.
Executive Committee
Ken Stilwell, President
Elizabeth Tanis, 1st Vice President
Anthony Don George, M.D., Secretary
Melanie Eyre, Treasurer
Joe “Seyoum” Lewis, Affirmative Action Officer
Cherry Spencer-Stark, Immediate Past President
Staff
Debbie Seagraves, Executive Director
Verna Barksdale, Development Director
Chara F. Jackson, Legal Director
Sherry Dawson, Director of Finance and Administration
Diane Winters, Administrative Director
Benétta M. Standly, Statewide Organizer
Azadeh Shahshahani, National Security/Immigrant Rights’ Project Director
Annual Reports
NEWSLETTER ARCHIVES
The University of Georgia Libraries' Georgiana Collection is searching for old issues of Georgia ACLU newsletters. Our library has a few scattered titles of CIVIL LIBERTIES published 1976?-1982); GEORGIA CIVIL LIBERTIES (1982-1998); and GEORGIA FREEDOM FIGHTER (1998 -?). As far as we can tell, the University of Georgia is the only library presently archiving these publications.
If you have, and are willing to donate, any old issues of any of these newsletters, or issues of other Georgia ACLU newsletters not named here, please contact Skip Hulett, Georgiana Librarian, UGA Libraries, Athens, GA 20602; email shulett@uga.edu, phone 706-583-0582.