Donna Lieberman has been Executive Director of the NYCLU since December 2001. She has also served as the Associate Director (1988 - 1993) and founder/director of the NYCLU Reproductive Rights Project (1990 - 2000).

Under Lieberman’s leadership the NYCLU has expanded the scope and depth of its work, supplementing and strengthening its litigation with an aggressive legislative advocacy and organizing program.  As a result, the organization is widely recognized as the state’s leading voice for freedom, justice and equality, advocating for those whose rights and liberties have been denied, especially for those most marginalized by society.

She appears regularly in local and national news coverage and on op-ed pages throughout the state. She also speaks frequently at local and national events on reproductive rights, police practices, freedom of speech, and other civil liberties and civil rights issues.

Lieberman began her public interest legal career as a criminal defense lawyer in the South Bronx office of the Legal Aid Society, and she later served as Executive Director of the Association of Legal Aid Attorneys, UAW. She served on the faculty of the Urban Legal Studies Program at City College for nearly a decade.  Lieberman graduated magna cum laude from Harvard in 1970 and received her J.D. from Rutgers University School of Law in 1973.