Michael Sisitzky

Assistant Policy Director @New York Civil Liberties Union

New York, NY, US

Part of the Policy Department management team, responsible for developing and managing advocacy priorities and strategies across civil rights and civil liberties issue areas• Directly lead the NYCLU\'s police transparency and accountability advocacy work• Maintain relationships with legislative allies and leadership, advocacy, and serve as a public and media spokesperson for the organization on relevant issues• Supervise attorneys, strategists, and organizers working on policing, crisis response, criminal justice, privacy and technology, immigrants’ rights, protest rights, and free speech • Led the NYCLU’s involvement in successful campaigns to pass and enact state and local legislation on topics of police transparency and accountability (including the successful override of a mayoral veto), drug policy, oversight of surveillance technologies, among other issues• Served in the leadership of a ballot initiative committee opposing ballot questions to revise the New York City Charter in 2024; anchored the committee’s overall policy analysis work and its compliance with campaign finance requirements; helped direct and coordinate voter outreach, message testing, coalition-building, fundraising, and paid advertisements

Georgetown Law

J.D., Law

New York University

B.A., Politics