Carol Rose is a longtime leading advocate for human rights and social justice. She has been executive director of the Massachusetts ACLU since 2003, expanding the organization and tackling many issues and legal cases of national importance. She began her career as a reporter, working for United Press International, The Des Moines Register and The New York Times, with stints in Washington, DC, Israel, the West Bank and Gaza, Northern Ireland and Japan. Carol was an ICWA fellow from 1989 to 1993 based in Pakistan, Nepal and Bangladesh. She went on to attend Harvard Law School—where she was co-editor of the Harvard Human Rights Journal—clerked for Federal District Court Judge Patti Saris, and worked as a First Amendment, intellectual property and civil rights lawyer at the Boston law firm Hill & Barlow. She earned her undergraduate degree at Stanford University and master’s at the London School of Economics.