Board Members
Richard Siegel has served the ACLU of Nevada affiliate since one year after its founding in 1966. For much of the period from 1967 to 2000 he was an officer of the Nevada ACLU’s board and was for a number of years state vice-president. Since 2000 he has been president of the affiliate (the title given to the chairperson of its board of directors). He was a member of the ACLU National Board of Directors from 1975 to 1988 and helped create the national ACLU programs in public education and international human rights. Rich is now Professor Emeritus of Political Science at University of Nevada, Reno, where he continues to teach international human rights and world politics. He writes a regular op-ed column in the Reno Gazette-Journal and is completing a book on the death penalty. Rich currently serves as an appointed member of Nevada’s Advisory Commission on the Administration of Justice and as an active member of Washoe County’s Education Collaborative. He recently ended his term as chairperson of the Nevada Committee on Foreign Relations.
Lisa is an attorney with a solo private practice in Las Vegas. She specializes in criminal defense, civil litigation, and appeals. She is an executive officer and board member of Nevada Attorneys for Criminal Justice and is also a member of the National Association for Criminal Defense Lawyers. Prior to law school she owned a sentencing consulting business in San Diego specializing in the development and presentation of mitigating evidence for sentencing purposes and in death penalty cases. While a graduate student in the Sociology Department at San Diego State University, Lisa worked on a two-year grant project through the National Institute of Health designed to facilitate the reintegration and rehabilitation of dually diagnosed, homeless veterans within San Diego County.
Robert is a semi-retired attorney specializing in intellectual property and contract law. He came to Nevada after working in the Los Angeles entertainment industry. He has been a member of the board of the ACLU of Nevada since 1999. As Vice President, he serves on the Executive Committee, and he is also Nevada's representative on the National ACLU Board. He lives at Lake Tahoe, serves on other non-profit boards, and is currently President of Barton Healthcare System, serving South Lake Tahoe and the Carson Valley.
Marc is currently the Senior Administrative Assistant with the Southwest Regional Council of Carpenters, a key leadership position in the union. He is also the Chairman of the Southern Nevada Carpenters and Millwrights Journeyman and Training Trust and has been a proponent for the rights of Latino workers to join building trades unions and for continued access to training. He also serves on the boards of several non-profits; the United Labor Agency of Nevada, and the Nevada Boy’s State Foundation. Prior to his current position, he was National Director of Organizing for the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America out of Washington, D.C.
Since joining the ACLU in 1962, Roger has served with ACLU affiliates in Washington, California, Hawaii and Virginia (president of the Hampton Roads Chapter for four years). Upon retiring from the US Navy in 1992 and moving to Nevada, Roger has been very active member the ACLU of Nevada, and currently serves as its Secretary. Roger has broadened his activist activities in other areas as well, he is currently serving as the Chairman of the Regional Transportation Commission’s Public Transportation Advisory Committee and the Citizens Advisory Committee.
Toni Sandler has lived in Reno for fours years, moving from the San Francisco Bay Area. She is one of two coordinators for the State Bar of Nevada’s Continuing Legal Education seminars. She has also spent more than three decades consulting with nonprofit organizations in multicultural marketing and organization development. Toni’s Dad was a proud ILWU member and she remains a strong collective bargaining supporter. Toni feels the most important civil rights issues for Nevada currently are immigrant rights and Nevada’s indigent defense program. She’s also supports the Southern Poverty Law Center and Cesar and Ilusion Millan Foundation.
Peter Ashman is a graduate of Brigham Young University and Southwestern University School of Law. He is an attorney practicing immigration law in Las Vegas, Nevada. He has held several national positions with the American Immigration Lawyers Association and is the only Nevadan ever elected to its Board of Governors. He currently serves as a Trustee for the American Immigration Law Foundation. He joined the ACLU of Nevada Board in 2007.
Stephen teaches First Amendment law in the Hank Greenspun School of Journalism and Media Studies at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. A graduate of Harvard Law School, he has written about constitutional law for the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the Wall Street Journal, Slate, and the First Amendment Center. He is a contributing editor of the Wilson Quarterly and the editor of the International Journal of Not-for-Profit Law.
Mario is an immigrant from Mexico City and is an active community member. He holds a Master’s Degree in Philosophy from UNR. He has been Editor, journalist and photographer for Ahora Spanish-English Newspaper since 2001. In the last few years he’s been involved with a bilingual theatre company in Reno, trying to use this art to fight different social issues that affect the Hispanic community.
Mike moved from Michigan in 1986 to take a faculty position at the University of Nevada, Reno. In his present role at the University, he serves as mediator and group facilitator for groups and organizations throughout Nevada and internationally, involved with issues related to human rights, environment, community building, and ethnic conflicts.
Gregg is the founding partner of Kamer Zucker Abbott, a Las Vegas law firm exclusively representing employers in labor and employment matters. He is a frequent speaker at university lectures, management training programs and labor and employment seminars and has authored numerous articles on labor and employment law issues. He also serves as a neutral arbitrator and mediator for various arbitration associations.
Gregg participated as an adjunct faculty member at the University of Nevada in Las Vegas and Reno and has served on the State Bar of Nevada’s Attorney Disciplinary Committee, Standing Committee on Judicial Ethics and Election Practices, Judicial Discipline Committee and currently its Board of Governors.
Mary has been a member of the Nevada Board of Directors since 1998, and also serves as the Political Action Chair for the Reno/Sparks chapter of the NAACP. She is additionally involved with the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), and has served as a board member for Washoe Legal Services and the Northern Nevada Soccer League.
