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Speaker: Elaine Elinson Elaine Elinson is an editor and communications consultant with the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights and the Equal Justice Society. For two decades, Elinson served as the editor of the ACLU News and the Public Information Director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California, where she directed media and publicity campaigns on a wide variety of issues, including race and the death penalty, juvenile justice, reproductive rights, language rights, immigrants' rights, racial profiling and the right to dissent. The former producer and host of the monthly Pacifica radio show "Taking Liberties, Elinson has led media trainings and presentations on media advocacy at numerous conferences and universities including Stanford Law School, Hastings Law School and the U.C. Berkeley School of Journalism. A former reporter and editor for Pacific News Service in California and Southeast Asia, she is the co-author of the book "Development Debacle: the World Bank in the Philippines," which was banned by the Marcos regime. |