Bio
Tata Traoré serves as Deputy Director of Affiliate Support and Nationwide Initiatives at the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). In this role, she strengthens and aligns the ACLU’s nationwide network of 54 state affiliates, advancing organizational resilience, leadership development, and operational excellence across the country. She works to ensure that national and affiliate teams operate as a cohesive, high-performing ecosystem capable of responding to urgent civil liberties challenges while building long-term institutional capacity.
Tata previously served as Director of People and Business Management within the Affiliate Support department, where she focused on integrating people strategy, financial management, and organizational systems to support sustainable growth and impact across the ACLU network.
Prior to joining the ACLU, Tata was Executive Director of Manifesta, an independent digital campaigning platform grounded in human rights and feminist principles. There, she advanced global collective action for gender equality and women’s and girls’ rights by connecting individuals worldwide to feminist movements and organizations.
Earlier in her career, Tata served as Executive Director of Turning Point Brooklyn, a community-based organization providing integrated housing, education, health, and social services to residents of Greater Brooklyn. Her leadership emphasized strength-based approaches that fostered self-efficacy and long-term self-sufficiency. She also served as Deputy Executive Director of the Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice, where she partnered in the development and execution of strategic and operational plans supporting movements for LGBTI, gender, racial, and economic justice worldwide.
In addition to her work at the ACLU, Tata occasionally works internationally as a facilitator, meeting designer, and executive coach. She is currently training to become a psychoanalyst at the Reik Institute of Psychoanalysis.
Having lived in multiple countries and fluent in several languages, Tata brings a strong intercultural lens to her leadership and organizational work. She lives in Brooklyn with her two daughters.