Bio
Peggy Ramin is a Policy Counsel at the ACLU-D.C. Most recently, she worked as senior policy counsel for economic justice at The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, where she led federal policy advocacy work on health care, employment, and anti-poverty issues. Prior to that, she was a staff attorney at Maryland Legal Aid, representing low-income clients in a range of civil legal and administrative matters. Before law school, Peggy worked for the New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU), and also spent a year working for a public health organization in Vietnam as a Princeton in Asia fellow. She received her BA from Cornell University and her JD from the University of Maryland.
Featured Work
Powering Real Public Safety
In this episode, we cover what you need to know about the public safety issues impacting our District. Host Alicia Yass, Policy Advocacy Director, is joined by Peggy Ramin, Policy Counsel, to discuss what real public safety looks like and how D.C. leaders can uplift prevention, instead of over-relying on policing and incarceration.
Later, Yass is joined by James Carpenter of the Free Minds Book Club. Here they discuss why D.C. needs to support reentry programs, the importance of support services to the formerly incarcerated, and what matters most to this community.