The Atlanta native will join the American Civil Liberties Union office in Denver on March 1.Â
Richardson succeeds Nathan Woodliff-Stanley, an ordained Unitarian Universalist minister who stepped down last year to return to the ministry.
Richardson is the former executive director of the International Human Trafficking Institute of the National Center for Civil and Human Rights in Atlanta, where she was formerly its executive vice president.Â
She has worked for three decades for global, national and local causes that support non-dominant identity groups, and she s a nationally recognized expert in justice for women and their families.
The American Civil Liberties Union is trying to get evidence in front of a Denver judge showing state leaders abrupt about-face on giving vaccine prioritization to inmates, contending it shows indifference by Gov. Jared Polis to the plight of the incarcerated.