The Sunshine Interview: The Executive Director Of ACLU Hawaiʻi

The American Civil Liberties Union of Hawaiʻi is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization with a mission to protect the civil rights and liberties secured in state and federal constitutions through litigation, legislation and education. The group’s executive director, Salmah Rizvi, met with Civil Beat editors Tuesday to talk about the group’s recent work.

Rizvi, a child of immigrants , holds a juris doctor from NYU School of Law, a master’s degree from Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service and a bachelor’s in anthropology from Johns Hopkins University. She is a former associate of the global law firm Ropes & Gray and a clerk for Judge Theodore A. McKee of the U.S. Court of Appeals and Judge J. Michael Seabright of the U.S. District Court of Hawai‘i.

Rivzi began by speaking about ACLU