It's time to elect new ACLU-DE board members! Click here to elect new members to the ACLU of Delaware Board of Directors. Nominee Profiles are below. Only your current ACLU membership is required; no additional donation is necessary.
To vote you will need your eight-digit membership ID number, which can be found on the email you received on April 12.
Online voting will close at midnight on Friday, May 10.
Nominee Profiles
Akilah Alleyne
Akilah Alleyne is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Sociology & Criminology at the University of Delaware. Her interdisciplinary research in sociology, education, and criminology focuses on the impact of state-level education policies on students’ home-to-school commuting experience, school choice, plans to attend college and other education-related outcomes. While serving on the ACLU of Delaware board, Akilah wants to work with colleagues to reveal hidden structural barriers that may result in stratified student experiences by race, class, income, or social identity. These may include inequitable school funding systems, major school closings, and slow investments in local school building or rebuilding.
Rony Baltazar-Lopez
Rony was born and raised in Milford, Delaware and is the son of Latino immigrants. He became the first college graduate in his family and is currently pursuing his MPA degree from the University of Delaware. He has worked in both the nonprofit and public sectors and serves on multiple public boards, including the Milford School Board, where he serves as the Vice President.
Kate Cowperthwait
Kate (Sroog) Cowperthwait, a Delaware native, is the President of the Sterling Group – DE, a lobbying firm representing selected industries. Through her thirty year career in advertising and non-profit management her career focused on foundational principles of growth and fairness. “I’ve wanted to meet people halfway, wherever halfway is to them.” In addition to the ACLU Board, Kate serves on the Mary Campbell Foundation and Brandywine YMCA boards.
Carmen Twyman
Carmen Twyman is a Director of Human Resources for BlackRock, a global investment manager and technology provider. She serves as the firm’s EEO Officer as well as site lead of its Delaware HR operations. She has 20 years’ experience as an employment and labor attorney and HR professional, advising organizations on creating fair and inclusive workplaces. Carmen is passionate about all human and civil rights, racial and gender equity. Her connections to the ACLU and Delaware date back to the marriage of her parents—an interracial couple who married in Delaware the same year the ACLU won the Loving v. Virginia decision, which legalized interracial marriages.
