DSG | Koya partnered with the ACLU of Arizona on the search for an Executive Director. The ACLU of Arizona advances equity and dismantles systemic injustice by taking legal action, influencing policy, and mobilizing our communities to protect the civil rights, liberties, and dignity of all Arizonans.
Our work resulted in the recruitment of Victoria Lopez to the role.

Lopez was previously the Director of Program and Strategy at the ACLU of Arizona where she led multi-disciplinary programs, issue-based campaigns and projects, electoral strategy, and strategic planning. While at the ACLU of Arizona, she has worked in various roles including legal director and staff attorney, serving as co-counsel in landmark cases, Melendres v. Sheridan, Jensen v. Thornell, as well as litigation challenging Arizona’s notorious SB 1070, and cases addressing abortion access, free speech, and voting rights.

Lopez was previously a senior staff attorney at the ACLU National Prison Project. She began practicing removal defense at the Florence Immigrant and Refugee Rights Project as an Equal Justice Works fellow, and then served as a staff attorney and executive director.

Originally from Chicago, Lopez a has called Arizona home for over 20 years. She holds a B.A. from the University of Illinois Champaign and is a 2001 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Law School.