Renee Shavers

Renee Shavers has dedicated her life’s passion & work to protecting and promoting the voting rights of Wisconsinites in a variety of ways & has been long time activist in Milwaukee. As Associate Director of the ACLU of Wisconsin and ACLU of Wisconsin Foundation, for the past six years, Ms Shavers has worked on the extension of the Voting Rights Act in 2005, election protection and worked to educate the public on Voter ID requirements in Wisconsin. She conceived of and has organized over 95 organizations in Wisconsin and nationally to form the Restore the Vote Wisconsin Coalition working to protect and expand ex-offender voting rights for the past 5 years. She has lectured statewide on a variety of voting rights and other civil liberties issues appearing frequently on radio and television talk shows.

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