Bio
Elizabeth Randol brings a wide range of professional experience in higher education, nonprofits, as well as public and private sector positions. She spent the early part of her career at The University of Scranton teaching in the philosophy and political science departments while serving as the director of the campus Women’s Center. For the past ten years, she has been managing political campaigns as well as advocacy initiatives, including election reform, high quality pre-k, and women’s access to capital. (Harrisburg)
Featured Work
Good news for free speech and holding powerful entities accountable
After more than a decade of advocacy by the ACLU of Pennsylvania, the Pennsylvania NewsMedia Association, Americans for Prosperity, and many others, a new state law has created new protections for Pennsylvanians from SLAPP lawsuits.
Pipeline of unnecessary legislation fuels mass incarceration crisis in Pennsylvania
Law enforcement and prosecutors already have all of the tools necessary to protect public safety. But over the last four decades, the Pennsylvania General Assembly has become a bipartisan offense factory, churning out hundreds of new bills each legislative session that duplicate existing law or add unnecessarily harsh new criminal penalties to our already bloated criminal code. This is the statehouse-to-prison pipeline.The ACLU of Pennsylvania tracks all criminal laws proposed or passed by lawmakers in Harrisburg for our biennial report More Law, Less Justice: Pennsylvania's Statehouse-to-Prison Pipeline. Late last month, we released our latest edition for the 2021-2022 legislative session.Mass incarceration begins at the statehouse. The purpose of this report is to highlight the role and responsibility of the Pennsylvania General Assembly in fueling our state’s ongoing mass incarceration crisis.