Nan Aron

Nan Aron is founder and President of the Alliance for Justice, a national association of public interest advocacy organizations seeking to advance the cause of justice for all Americans The Alliance's achievements include successfully monitoring and influencing judicial appointments, preserving access to the courts for all Americans, and protecting and enabling the advocacy rights of nonprofit organizations. Ms. Aron is a nationally-recognized expert on public interest law, the federal judiciary, and citizen participation in policy formulation. She has served as Executive Producer for multiple award-winning films on immigration, courageous judges, legal services for the poor, and the death penalty.

Prior to founding the Alliance, Ms. Aron was a civil rights lawyer with the National Prison Project at the American Civil Liberties Union and practiced law at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. She has taught at Georgetown and George Washington University Law Schools, and serves on the Dean's Advisory Council at American University's Washington College of Law. Ms. Aron is the author of Liberty and Justice for All: Public Interest Law in the 1980s and Beyond and regularly appears as an expert in such media outlets as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, USA Today, The Los Angeles Times, The Nation, Vanity Fair and National Public Radio.