ABOUT US

The principles guiding the ACLU of Mississippi are simple and clear:

• The right to free expression—above all, the freedom to dissent from the official view and majority;
• The right to equal treatment regardless of race, sex, religion, National origin, sexual orientation, age or handicap;
• The right of fair play in encounters with government institutions—courts, schools, police, bureaucracy—and with the repositories of great private power;
• The right to be let alone—to be secure from spying, from the promiscuous and unwarranted collection of personal information, and from interference in our private lives.

These guarantees of liberty are not self-enforcing. Those with power often undermine the rights of individuals and groups who lack the political influence, the numerical strength or the money to secure their birthright of freedom. That is why the efforts of the ACLU of Mississippi—in the courts, in the legislature, and in the public forum—have most often been on behalf of people with the special vulnerability of the powerless.

Meet Our Executive Director, Nsombi Ayanna Lambright

The ACLU of Mississippi is pleased to have Nsombi Lambright as its executive director.  Ms. Lambright comes to the ACLU from Southern Echo Inc., where she served as Resource Coordinator from 1998-2003. Southern Echo is a leadership education, training and development organization serving the Southern region. She also worked as a crime prevention program representative in the Jackson Police Department from 1994-96, and from 1993-94 she worked as a staff writer for the Jackson Advocate, the state's oldest African American newspaper and the largest weekly newspaper in the state.

Ms. Lambright holds a Master's degree in Public Policy and Administration from Jackson State University and a Bachelor's degree in English from Tougaloo College. She is a native of Jackson and the single parent of a son who is in the third grade.