Staff Members
Allen Lichtenstein is the General Counsel of the American Civil Liberties Union of Nevada. He also maintains a private law practice emphasizing First Amendment and other constitutional law. Prior to coming to Las Vegas in 1990, he was an Associate Professor and Deputy Chair of his Department at Brooklyn College. He was also on the faculty of the University of New Mexico, SUNY at Buffalo and University of Georgia, and has also taught at the Greenspun School of Communication at UNLV. Allen has a Masters degree in Journalism from the University of Florida, a PhD in Communication from Florida State University and a JD from the Benjamin Cardozo School of Law.
Lee works on a host of civil liberties issues such as reproductive choice, GLBT equality, First Amendment violations, student rights, police accountability, racial justice, prison conditions, and the criminalization of homelessness. Her work includes lobbying state and local legislative bodies, public education, media, and litigating issues of constitutional concern. Lee is a founding Board member of Forgotten Voice, a newspaper by and for the homeless community of Southern Nevada. Before coming to Nevada, Lee worked for Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders, helping to usher in a new era of marriage equality in Massachusetts, and has also interned for Earthjustice and the ACLU of Connecticut. A graduate of Harvard Law School, Lee is a licensed attorney in both Nevada and New York. She lives with her partner in Reno, and is an amateur jewelry maker, avid puzzler, and licensed bartender.
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Maggie is the ACLU of Nevada's Interim Southern Program Director and Staff Attorney. After five years in private practice as a commercial litigator at Bingham McCutchen in Los Angeles and then San Francisco, she joined the ACLU of Nevada in July of 2007. Maggie graduated from UCLA's School of Law and UCLA's Program in Public Interest Law and Policy in 2002. Despite her stint in the private sector representing Fortune 500 companies, Maggie has long been dedicated to public interest work. During law school, she volunteered at legal clinics for the homeless, represented garment workers, and interned at the Inner City Law Center, an organization serving the homeless and residents of slum housing. Before law school, Maggie worked as a community organizer and ran a small community development nonprofit in Minneapolis.
In her years in private practice, Maggie maintained a very active pro bono practice, including providing free legal services to the homeless and litigating impact constitutional cases involving prisoners' rights and school segregation. Maggie has worked on a number of civil liberties and civil rights cases since she joined the ACLUN’s staff, including matters before the Ninth Circuit and the Federal District Court of Nevada. Dedicated to the principle that the Constitution protects everyone from government abuse and applies to even the most unpopular in our society, Maggie was the lead attorney in a successful challenge to the State of Nevada’s retroactive sex offender laws, winning relief that affected thousands of people statewide, and led the ACLUN’s fight to protect anonymous online commenters, which is now at the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. She is also one of the attorneys in a class action regarding medical conditions at Ely State Prison.
In addition to litigating cases, Maggie serves as an advocate and media spokesperson on a variety of civil rights and civil liberties issues including criminal justice, LGBT rights, racial profiling, and government transparency.
Maggie loves to read and travel near and far. She takes her dogs -- a Dalmatian named Romeo and a Pitbull named Ophelia -- hiking as often as she can while her cat, Juliet, guards Maggie’s retro Vegas house.
Born and raised in Southern California, Rebecca moved to northern Nevada in 2001 to attend the University of Nevada, Reno where she studied Economics and International Business. In 2004, Rebecca served as a Rotary International Ambassadorial Scholar in Santiago, Chile and followed a rigorous interdisciplinary studies program at Pontificia Universidad Católica. Rebecca is a published writer and blogger with additional international experience throughout the Americas and Asia. As a bilingual communications specialist, her professional experience also includes work as a consultant focusing on program development, fundraising, as well as marketing and public relations for local organizations, and previous experience investigating housing discrimination and advocating for equal housing opportunities in northern Nevada. She holds professional certificates in Mediation and Conflict Resolution, Grant Writing, and Teaching English as a Foreign Language. Rebecca loves to dance and is an avid tea drinker.
Paige started with the ACLU of Nevada in February of 2005. She has worked in both the Reno and Las Vegas offices as an intake coordinator, office assistant, office manager, and program associate. Paige attended Case Western Reserve University, where she started the first ACLU student group on her campus, worked to establish a campus-wide recycling program, and researched and wrote grants for the school’s “green” residential hall complex. Upon graduation, Paige moved to Nevada to be with her husband. Recently, Paige briefly attended law school where she realized it was her life-long dream to be an artist, not attorney. She now works on her art in her free time.
Phil has been with the ACLU of Nevada since 2007. He is a graduate of the University of Mary Washington, where he studied International Affairs, including a year at Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. After graduation, he worked as an English language teacher in central Mexico. At the ACLU, Phil combines administrative duties with community outreach work and event planning. He is currently pursuing a Graduate Certificate in Nonprofit Management from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. In his spare time, he enjoys hiking, performing arts, and exploring the Las Vegas valley.
Tamika Shauntee is a native Nevadan. She was born and raised in Las Vegas and received her Bachelor’s degree in Criminal Justice from the University of Nevada, Reno. She also attended graduate school at UNLV. She has worked with many well-known law firms in the state of Nevada including McDonald Carano Wilson and Beckley Singleton, Chtd. Tamika wanted the opportunity to work for a non-profit organization and felt that the ACLU was the best fit, because of her longstanding and deep-seated commitment to civil liberties and civil rights. Tamika resided in France when she was younger and speaks fluent French. She enjoys traveling and learning about new cultures and educating her son about the wonderful world around him.
