Reaching for the Dream
Profiles in Affirmative Action

Made possible in part by a grant from the van Loben Sels Foundation

Profiles by Peter Y. Sussman

Peter Y. Sussman, a longtime San Francisco journalist, is the co-author of Committing Journalism (W.W. Norton). A former editor at the San Francisco Chronicle, he is the Immediate Past President of the Northern California Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists and the winner of many local and national journalism awards.


Editorial Board and Contributors

Elaine Elinson
American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California

Christopher J. Herrera
American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California

Beth H. Parker, Louis Kessler
Equal Rights Advocates

Paula Pearlman, Pamela R. Lacey
California Women’s Law Center

Oren Sellstrom
Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights

Theodore Wang
Chinese for Affirmative Action


Photography

Christopher J. Herrera
pp. 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 26, 27, 28, 29

Rick Rocamora
pp. 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 19, 20, 24

Sandy Thacker
pp. 21, 22

Page 18, photo courtesy Fred Lau

Page 26, photo courtesy Derek Smith



This booklet is a project of
a consortium of civil rights organizations including:

American Civil Liberties Union
1663 Mission Street #460
San Francisco, CA 94103


1616 Beverly Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 94103


PO Box 87131
San Diego, CA 92138


Asian Pacific American Legal Center
1010 South Flower Street, Suite 302
Los Angeles, CA 90015


California Women’s Law Center
3460 Wilshire Boulevard #1102
Los Angeles, CA 90010


Chinese for Affirmative Action
17 Walter U. Lum Place
San Francisco, CA 94108


Employment Law Center/Legal Aid Society of San Francisco
1663 Mission Street #400
San Francisco, CA 94103


Equal Rights Advocates
1663 Mission Street #550
San Francisco, CA 94103


Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights
301 Mission Street, Suite 400
San Francisco, CA 94105


Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund
634 South Spring Street
Los Angeles, CA 90014


NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc.
315 West Ninth Street, Suite 208
Los Angeles, CA 90015


For more copies:

On the Internet:
This booklet can be downloaded via the internet at www.aclu-sc.org.


Additional Booklets:
To order more copies please write or call: Publications Department, ACLU of Northern California,
1663 Mission Street, #460 San Francisco CA 94103.
Telephone: 415/621-2493 FAX 415/621-3074.
Single copies are $3. 10 copies are $25.




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