The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Foundation of Colorado cordially invites you to the

2008 Carle Whitehead Memorial Award Dinner

Principles and Promise:
Protecting the Constitution

With Featured Speaker Bruce Schneier, founder and CTO of BT Counterpane, technology/security specialist

Thanks to everyone who made the evening such a success!

Saturday, October 4, 2008

Denver Marriott City Center • 1701 California Street

Reception and Silent Auction - 5:30 p.m.

Dinner and Awards - 7:00 p.m.

Honoring

Lucia Guzman, Carle Whitehead Awardee
Jennifer Viega and Alice Madden, Ralph Carr Awardees
David Wymore and Maria Liu, Sherman Awardees

Tickets

$200 per person ($225 after September 15)
Group table purchases also available
RSVP by September 15, 2008 • 303.777.5482 x105

Interested in volunteering for this event? Contact Alison May at 303.777.5482 x117

Would you or your company like to donate a gift to our silent auction? Contact Caryn Osterman at 303.777.5482 x105

Learn more about our guests

Featured Speaker Professor Bruce Schneier

Bruce Schneier is the founder and CTO of BT Counterpane, the world’s leading protector of networked information, and an internationally renowned security technologist and prolific author.  He has testified before the United States Congress on many occasions.  Described by The Economist as a “security guru”, Schneier’s book, Beyond Fear, tackles a wide range of security issues, from personal safety and crime to corporate and national security.  In January 2008, he received the Norbert Weiner Award for Social and Professional Responsibility from the Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR). You can learn more about his work at his website.

Carle Whitehead Awardee Lucia Guzman

The Carle Whitehead Award is given to a Coloradan whose life and work reflect a commitment to civil liberties and a devotion to human justice. 

Lucia Guzman is the Executive Director of Denver’s Agency for human Rights and Community Relations.  An ordained minister since 1992, Reverend Guzman is a long-time Denver business owner and community leader.  She became the head of the Colorado Council of Churches in 1994 – the first woman and the first Mexican American to hold that position.  She has represented west and northwest Denver on the Denver Public School’s Board of Education, serving as Vice President from 1999-2003.  Thanks to her efforts, Denver now has a dual-language Montessori school for Hispanic and Anglo children in Northwest Denver providing a unique educational opportunity for its monolingual Spanish and English-speaking students.

Ralph Carr Awardees: Jennifer Veiga and Alice Madden

The Ralph Carr Award is given to individual(s) recognized for devotion to a single contemporary civil rights issue.

State Senator Jennifer Veiga represents the 31st Senate District and currently serves as Chairman of the Senate Business, Labor and Technology Committee, Vice-Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, and is a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee. She is one of only two openly gay members of the legislature and in 2007 successfully introduced legislature to ban employment discrimination based on sexual orientation.

State Representative Alice Madden represents House District 10 and is a member of the Executive Committee of Legislative Council and the Legislative Council Committee. She helped negotiate and pass Referendum C - the much needed TABOR reform. She is a fellow at the Center for American Progress and a board member for the Western Progress.

State Senator Jennifer Veiga and State Representative Alice Madden are being recognized as two persons who have devoted significant time and resources to an important contemporary civil rights issue; this year it is for protecting LGBT persons from discrimination.

Sherman Awardees: David Wymore and Maria Liu

The ACLU-CO presents the Edward Sherman Award in recognition of outstanding legal work on behalf of furthering civil liberties.

Maria Liu is a founding member of the firm Collins, Liu & Lyons, LLP and specializes in criminal defense and post conviction relief. She is committed to ensuring that individuals accused of crimes are afforded fair treatment, respect, and the legal and constitutional protections guaranteed to them. In addition to her private cases, she represents indigent clients as a member of the Office of Alternate Defense Counsel.

David D. Wymore maintains a solo practice in Boulder, Colorado. He was a Deputy Public Defender and the Colorado Chief Trial Deputy. As the Chief Trial Deputy for the statewide defender system, he represented death eligible clients across the State of Colorado. Mr. Wymore also teaches trial tactics and death litigation across the United States as well as in foreign countries.

Attorneys David Wymore and Maria Liu’s work as a legal team for Tim Masters succeeded in having his wrongful conviction for murder overturned. Tim Masters was released in 2008, after serving more than nine years in prison, and after DNA evidence pointed to a different suspect in the 1987 murder of Peggy Hettrick.

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