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"ACLU of Florida Welcomes New Staff"
April 2003 Edition of the ACLU of Florida Newsletter
We have two new additions to the ACLU of Florida office in Miami: Laura Agostina and Cheryl Roberts. Laura began her duties March 6 as our part-time bookkeeper. She recently relocated to South Florida from New York City, where she had more than 25 years of experience in a variety of administrative and managerial positions.
She has worked for the Theater Development Fund and the State of New York Authority, which is responsible for building and renovating New York City schools.
In addition to her duties with the ACLU (where she will be in our office on Thursdays and Fridays), she is providing contractual accounting services to a number of other clients. Laura will be working with Assistant Director Sandy Vancol.
Laura can be reached 305-576-2337, ext. 21 and at lagostina@aclufl.org.
We have also added Cheryl Roberts to our staff as Field Coordinator. She will be assisting Voting Rights Project Coordinator Courtenay Strickland with the ACLU-FL campaign to help restore the civil rights and voting rights for people with prior felony convictions.
Cheryl will also be "the point person" for the chapters to contact for general support from the state office and for our work on a variety of privacy, surveillance and technology issues.
Cheryl has been serving as Communications Director of the Miami-Dade Election Reform Coalition, while also working on voting rights issues in Florida for the past year. She helped to push for improvements in voting technology among other reforms throughout Miami-Dade County.
Cheryl is a longtime community activist in both San Francisco and her new home here in South Florida. She is also an adjunct professor in African-New World Studies at Florida International University, where she teaches a course titled The Black Experience: Black Diasporic Identities in the 21st Century. Cheryl received her master's degree in African Diaspora Studies from University of California at Berkeley. She can be reached at 305 - 576 - 2337, ext. 17 and at croberts@aclufl.org.
