BORDC's Advisory Board

Michael Avery is immediate past president of the National Lawyers Guild and a constitutional law professor at Suffolk Law School.

Lynne Bradley is Director of the American Library Association Office of Government Relations.

David Cole is a professor at Georgetown University of Law and a pro bono attorney with the Center for Constitutional Rights. He is author of several books, including Enemy Aliens: Double Standards and Constitutional Freedoms in the War on Terrorism.

James X. Dempsey is the Policy Director of the Center for Democracy and Technology and coauthor with David Cole of Terrorism and the Constitution.

Chris Finan is President of the American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression and is the authori of From the Palmer Raids to the Patriot Act: A History of the Fight for Free Speech in America.

Nat Hentoff is a journalist and authority on the Bill of Rights and the Constitution. His most recent book, The War on the Bill of Rights and the Gathering Resistance, includes chapters on the Bill of Rights Defense Committee and the movement of cities and towns to restore Bill of Rights protections.

Jeanne Herrick-Stare, formerly a Senior Analyst on Civil Liberties at the Friends Committee on National Legislation, is the founder of Torture Is Not Us, an online resource.

Pramila Jayapal is founder and executive director, Hate Free Zone Washington. She was born in India, and raised in India, Indonesia and Singapore.

Kate Martin is the Director of the Center for National Security Studies.

Nancy Murray is the Director of the Bill of Rights Education Project of the ACLU of Massachusetts.

William C. Newman is a civil rights attorney and the director of the Western Regional Office of the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts.

Christopher Pyle, a former U.S. Army intelligence officer, served on the Church Committee, which investigated the FBI's Counter-Intelligence Program (COINTELPRO) and drafted the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). He is a Professor of Politics at Mount Holyoke College. His most recent book, Getting Away with Torture, will be published in April 2009.

Stephen Rohde is a constitutional lawyer, author and lecturer and a past president of the ACLU of Southern California. He is the author of American Words of Freedom.

Elaine Scarry is the Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value at Harvard University. Her most recent book is entitled Who Defended the Country? A New Democracy Forum on Authoritarian versus Democratic Approaches to National Defense on 9/11.

David Sobel is Senior Counsel at the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

Chris Townsend, Political Action Director of the United Electrical Workers Union (UE), drafted and supported the passage of the first civil liberties resolution to receive the support of a national labor union.

Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia directs the Center for Immigrants’ Rights and is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Law at Penn State Dickinson School of Law. She was formerly a Senior Policy Associate at the National Immigration Forum.

Howard Zinn is an historian who has taught history at Boston University and Spellman College. The best-known of his many books is A People’s History of the United States.

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