For Immediate Release: 
June 16, 2021

The ACLU-NJ announced today that it has hired Maia Raposo as its new communications director, bringing to the organization an innovator in multi-channel advocacy communications with a global profile. Raposo was most recently with the international environmental organization Waterkeeper Alliance, and carries a long track record of leading social change.

Raposo takes the helm as communications director at a crucial period of growth at the ACLU of New Jersey, amid the expanding possibilities for social justice advocacy through strategic communication with the over 40,000 ACLU members in New Jersey and the public at large. Over the past four years, under Executive Director Amol Sinha’s leadership, the ACLU-NJ has grown from a 14-member staff to a roster of nearly 30, with plans for more growth. This growth has substantially increased the ACLU-NJ’s political power in the state, allowing the organization to expand its presence in community spaces, before the Legislature, before the New Jersey Supreme Court, and in the breadth of its advocacy to contend with unprecedented civil rights and liberties challenges at the state and federal levels.

“The ACLU has led the way in the most important social justice issues throughout every era, and I consider it my mission to tell the stories of that work. We have unprecedented opportunities to drive social change through communicating with the public, and I aim for the organization to seize those opportunities to create a better New Jersey,” said Raposo. “I am thrilled to be joining the premier civil rights organization in my home state at this crucial moment in American history.”

Raposo will lead a team of four, including previous communications director Allison Peltzman, who will deepen the organization’s content and messaging strategies in a new role as ACLU-NJ’s senior content manager.

“Maia brings a track record of professionalism, innovation, and integrated advocacy, bringing people and projects together to tell stories that build movements. Her sense of strategy in overseeing the vast breadth of media, both new and traditional, puts her in a position to evolve the organization’s communications program even further,” said ACLU-NJ Executive Director Amol Sinha. “I am excited to welcome Maia into our wonderful, growing organization, and I know that her proficiency for using a broad range of strategies and tactics promises to help the ACLU-NJ evolve in carrying out our groundbreaking work.”

Raposo comes to the ACLU-NJ after serving for five years as communications and marketing director at Waterkeeper Alliance, a global environmental organization with 350 member organizations in over 45 countries, having risen through the organization through other roles. Before that, she worked as marketing manager for The Brooklyn Brewery and public relations manager for Food Karma Projects, based in New York. She lives in West Orange, NJ, and begins as ACLU-NJ communications director on June 21.