Deputy Legal Director/ Director of the Trone Center for Justice and Equality

About the role

The ACLU seeks applicants for the full-time position of D eputy Legal Director/ Director of the Trone Center for Justice and Equality in the National Legal Department of the ACLU's National office in New York, NY; San Francisco, CA; or Washington, DC. P riority will be given to candidates who can be based in New York, NY, or Washington, DC. This is a hybrid role that has in-office requirements of two (2) days per week or eight (8) days per month. The ACLU's Trone Center for Justice and Equality , one of three component centers in the ACLU's National Legal Department, focuses on issues of crime, punishment, and racial justice, including efforts to eradicate racial injustice, the treatment of prisoners, the death penalty and the policies of over-incarceration that have led the United States to imprison more people than any other country in the world. The Center contains six Projects/Programs working toward these goals: the ACLU's Abortion Criminal Defense Initiative ( center ed in Washington, DC), Capital Punishment Project ( center ed in Durham, North Carolina), the Criminal Law Reform Project ( center ed in New York City), the National Prison Project ( center ed in Washington, DC), the Racial Justice Program ( center ed in New York City), and the John Adams Project (centered in Washington, DC ) . Special consideration will be given to applications submitted by June 19, 2026.