Theresa Amato
Director, Board of Directors

Theresa Amato is the former president of Citizen Works, a D.C.-based non profit organization, founded by Ralph Nader to advance justice by strengthening citizen participation in power. She is also the founder and former executive director (1993-2000) of the Illinois-based Citizen Advocacy Center, a grassroots organization which strengthens public capacities and resources for self governance by teaching civic tools and using the law to confront and remove abuses of local power. From 1991-1993, Theresa was a litigator at Public Citizen in Washington, D.C., and the director of the Freedom of Information Clearinghouse. In 1997, she was named by The American Lawyer as one of the youngest leaders under 45 in the legal profession whose vision and commitment is changing lives, and in 1999 she was named a Wasserstein Fellow by Harvard Law School for her outstanding dedication to public interest law. Amato was the national campaign manager of Nader 2000 and a fellow at the Institute of Politics at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government in Fall 2002. She is an honors graduate of Harvard University (’86), and New York University School of Law (’89).