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The 39-year-old mother returned
to the Detroit area four years ago from
New York City, where she worked as a
ot yet a decade old, Kary
staff attorney with the ACLU on its
Moss was deeply shaken by
Women's Rights Project. She became
events that roiled the
director of the Maurice and Jane Sugar
nation: the assassinations of
Law Center in Detroit, which is
Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert
known for its civil rights litigation.
Kennedy, the Vietnam War and the
She is the lead attorney in a case that
Detroit riots.
led to an injunction requiring the
• The political and
state's Department
social turmoil that
of Environmental
gripped America gal-
Quality to assess
vanized her con-
environmental risks
sciousness and
to low-income corn-
formed the choices
munities when it is
she would make for
giving permits for
the rest of her life.
activities that pol-
"I became aware
lute.
at a very.young age
Joining the
of inequalities in
ACLU is a natural
society and the
step for Moss, who
extent of poverty in
acknowledged that
this country," said
she has taken flack
Moss, the new direc-
for joining an orga-
tor of the Michigan
nization that hasn't
chapter of the
always done the
American Civil
popular thing. She
Liberties Union.
said some of the .
While her par-
important issues for
Kary L. Moss, the new director of
ents, Ann and
Michigan's ACLU.
the Michigan chap-
Norman Moss, were
ter include fighting
efforts to undo affirmative action, to
not particularly active in the anti-war
pass a religious freedom act that
or civil rights movements, they raised
her in an atmosphere that developed
exempts state prisoners and to make
her natural sensitivity to societal ten-
"fetus-cide" a crime.
sions.
"What the ACLU does no other
organization in this country does," she
"There's a tradition in Jewish cul-
ture of compassion and awareness of
said. "You may not agree with it, but
you can't argue with its commitment
inequities. I just picked that up," she
said.
to the Bill of Rights and principles
Moss, who begins her new job in
embodied in the Constitution."
Moss wrote a book called The
mid-August, was chosen from a pool
Rights of Women and Girls, an ACLU
of 200 or so applicants for the job of
handbook that provides information
ACLU head in one of the organiza-
to young women about their legal
tion's largest chapters (6,000 mem-
rights. It will be featured in this year's
bers). She will manage a staff of six.
Jewish Book Fair. Her first book,
Moss succeeds Howard Simon, who
which she edited for the Duke
left last fall to head the Florida ACLU,
University Press, focuses on reforms
and Richard Lobenthal, who has
needed to improve the quality of
served as interim director since then.
health care for women.
A graduate of Southfield-Lathrup
Moss was recently appointed a
and Congregation Shaarey Zedek,
Wasserstein Public Interest Law Fellow
Moss earned a bachelor's degree at
by Harvard University's Law School.
Michigan State University, a law
She, her attorney husband Doug
degree at City University of New York
Baker, and their daughter, 7-year-old
and a master's degree in international
Jessa, live in Ann Arbor..❑
law at Columbia University.

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