I’m a civil rights lawyer and dog lover living in Denver, Colorado.  My husband and I founded the Civil Rights Education and Enforcement Center (CREEC) in 2013 after 17 years of plaintiffs’ civil rights practice as Fox & Robertson.  If you would like to support CREEC and its civil rights mission, toss a coin or two in our direction!

Here is a quick list of things I’m more or less unequivocally for or against, so you can put me on your own personal political spectrum:

• Vigorously enforced civil rights laws and regulations:  for.
• Marriage equality:  for.
• Single-payer national health care:  for.
• President Obama:  for/deeply nostalgic.
• The Democratic Party:  for.
• The Republican Party: against/terrified for the future of the world as we know it.
• Racial and religious profiling:  against.
• Hate speech laws:  against.
• Respecting other people and their beliefs when you speak:  for.
• Pretending you’re opposing “political correctness” when in fact you just want license to be an asshole:  against.
• The Constitution:  for.
• Pretending the Constitution is only open to a single interpretation:  against.
• Abortion: against.
• “Pro-life” politicians who vote to curtail health care:  against.
• Robust and inclusive immigration policy:  for.
• Legalization of most recreational drugs:  for.
• Right wing politicians who talk about family values but sexually harass their co-workers or try to pick up other men in restrooms:  against in principle, but for in the sense that they provide good blog fodder.