Board of Directors
ACLU of Texas members elect the Board of Directors. Learn more.
Royce Brooks
Chair
Royce Brooks has extensive governmental experience, including having worked in the U.S. House of Representatives, the U.S. Senate, and the City of...
Dr. Froswa’ Booker-Drew
Vice Chair
Froswa' Booker-Drew, Ph.D. has an extensive background in nonprofit management, partnership development, training, and education. She is the...
Manuel Quinto-Pozos
Secretary
Manuel Quinto-Pozos is a partner at Deats, Durst & Owen, in Austin, Texas, where he practices union- and employee-side labor and employment law. He...
MaryScott Hagle
Treasurer
MaryScott Hagle is a native Houstonian, recovering architect, and serial careerist who worked most recently as the executive director of the Dawn...
Bilal Ayub
Equity Officer
Bilal Ayub has been passionate about nonprofit leadership and community organizing since high school. He believes that the standard of leadership...
Feliz Abalos
Audit Committee
Feliz Abalos is an attorney born and raised in Odessa, Texas. After law school at Ohio Northern University, she quickly returned to the Permian...
Laura V. Rodríguez
Personnel Committee
A principal and founder at The Raben Group specializing in communications, message development, and political strategy, Laura V. Rodríguez leads...
Ricardo de Anda
Dr. Ricardo de Anda is a lifelong resident of Laredo. He was one of the first Latino graduates of Stanford Law School. He is a civil rights...
Alex Birnel
Alex Birnel is an organizer who thrives on tackling long odds and building power. A founding member of MOVE Texas, he fought voter suppression,...
Omar El-Halwagi
Omar M. El-Halwagi is the founder and managing attorney of The Anti-Discrimination Attorney PLLC, the co-founder of Grassroots Islam, and a...
Nicola Fuentes Toubia
An avid ACLU supporter since 2001, Nicola Fuentes Toubia believes that civil liberties are the cornerstone of our democracy: they allow individual...
Kara Hanaoka
Kara Hanaoka serves as the executive director of Good Work Austin, bringing over 14 years of experience in the social impact sector. Widely...
Fatma Marouf
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Fatma Marouf is a professor at Texas A&M School of Law and the founding director of the Immigrant Rights Clinic. She supervises students on cases...
Patrick Moreno-Covington
Patrick Moreno-Covington is a program officer with Rockwell Fund, a private, place-based philanthropy based in Houston, Texas. As a program...
Ranjana Natarajan
Ranjana Natarajan directs the Civil Rights Clinic at the University of Texas School of Law. She has directed the Civil Rights Clinic from 2013 to...
