Bio
Keisha Mulfort believes that rights on paper mean nothing without the infrastructure, the strategy, and the people to make them real. As the inaugural Deputy Executive Director and Strategy Officer of the ACLU of Florida, she has the honor of building that infrastructure — translating the affiliate’s boldest commitments into the disciplined, cross-functional work that moves constitutional rights from ideal to lived reality.
Partnering directly with the Executive Director, Mulfort serves as the organization’s chief strategic operator — responsible for the cross-functional coordination, governance, and institutional infrastructure that keep a high-impact civil rights organization running with purpose and precision. She is the person who ensures that the ACLU of Florida’s vision for Florida’s democracy moves from the page into the world. Florida is a battleground for the rights and freedoms that define what democracy means in practice — and Mulfort is among those leading the fight to defend them.
Before assuming this role, Mulfort served as the affiliate’s Deputy Director of Communications and Senior Communications Strategist, joining the organization in May 2024. She quickly became one of the affiliate’s most trusted and visible voices, a public spokesperson in some of its highest-stakes legal and advocacy moments, including Florida’s Amendment 4 campaign for reproductive freedom. She was a vocal challenger to the state’s misuse of taxpayer dollars to mislead voters. She confronted the DeSantis administration’s efforts to undermine the constitutional amendment process. She communicated with precision and authority, on the record, under pressure, in real time — and the organization’s voice was stronger for it.
Before joining the ACLU of Florida, Mulfort served as Chief of Staff and Director of Public Affairs to State Attorney Monique Worrell at the Ninth Judicial Circuit’s State Attorney’s Office — one of the largest prosecutorial offices in the state, serving more than 1.5 million people across two counties. She launched first-of-its-kind initiatives, was a steady partner to executive leadership, and built systems of accountability where none had existed. Operating at the intersection of law, communications, and institutional governance, with literal freedom as the stakes, she developed the kind of judgment that only comes from high-consequence experience. That experience shapes everything about how she leads today.
Earlier in her career, as a College and Career Specialist and Educator in Orange County, Mulfort developed programming that helped guide students to some of the nation’s most competitive universities, expanding access and opening doors for young people who had every reason to believe those doors were closed. That work is the foundation beneath everything that followed.
Mulfort earned her Juris Doctorate from Florida A&M University College of Law, where she developed the legal fluency and analytical rigor that inform her approach to civil liberties work and executive leadership. She holds a Master of Science in Sport Management and Legal Studies from PennWest California University, graduating with honors, and dual Bachelor of Arts degrees in English and Political Science from Fayetteville State University, also an honors graduate. She is a proud double HBCU alumna — and the intellectual tradition, communal values, and commitment to excellence she carries from those institutions are not background details; they are the bedrock for her leadership.
Beyond her work at the ACLU of Florida, Mulfort serves as President of the Virgil Hawkins Florida Chapter National Bar Association Foundation, a statewide civil rights nonprofit dedicated to diversifying the legal profession and expanding access to it through scholarships, fellowships, and pro bono legal services. She serves as Board Chair of The PLUG 4 Connection, an educational nonprofit connecting students in Orange County to college and career pathways, and as a member of the Orange County Affordable Housing Advisory Board. She is a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated, an organization whose commitment to sisterhood, scholarship, and service, has always reflected the values she brings to her work.
The rights the Constitution promises must be real — enforceable, accessible, and defended for every person in this state. Mulfort holds that standard in everything she does, and carries it forward for her daughters, Kwin and Kyla, and for the Florida they will inherit.