Gara LaMarche

Gara LaMarche is vice president and director of U.S. Programs for the Open Society Institute. Before joining OSI in 1996, LaMarche served as associate director of Human Rights Watch and was director of its Free Expression Project (1990-1996) and the Freedom-To-Write Program of the PEN American Center (1988-1990). From 1976 to 1988, he served in a variety of positions with the American Civil Liberties Union, including associate director of its New York branch (1979-1984) and executive director of the Texas Civil Liberties Union (1984-1988). In 1988-1989, he was a Charles H. Revson Fellow on the Future of the City of New York.

LaMarche is the author of nearly 100 articles on civil liberties and human rights topics and has been published in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, Newsday, the Nation, and the Texas Observer. He is the editor of Speech and Equality: Do We Really Have to Choose? (New York University Press, 1996).

LaMarche serves on the board of directors of PEN American Center and ARTICLE 19, on the U.S. advisory committee for Index on Censorship, a London-based human rights magazine, and on the advisory committee for the Human Rights Watch Women's Rights Division.[1]

Affiliations (alpha order)

• American Civil Liberties Union
• Article 19 – International Advisory Board
• Human Rights Watch – Advisory Committee
• Index on Censorship – Advisory Committee
• New York Jobs with Justice – Member
• Open Society Institute – OSI Vice President and Director of U.S. Programs
• Texas Civil Liberties Union – former executive director
• White House Project – Director

External links

• "Gara LaMarche: Vice President and Director of U.S. Programs", undated, accessed January 2005.