Maggie Garrett

Vice President for PUblic Policy,
Americans United

Maggie has been working on church-state separation issues for nearly 20 years.  Although she started her civil liberties work as a litigator, she now works in the public policy arena.  She represents Americans United before Congress and the Trump Administration, and she oversees the state legislative program. 

Much of Maggie's work focuses on ensuring that public funds are used for public schools. For the last eight years, she has served as the co-chair of the National Coalition for Public Education (NCPE), a coalition of more than 50 national organizations that opposes private school vouchers. She is also the chair of the Coalition Against Religious Discrimination (CARD), which is the national coalition that fights against policies that allow religiously affiliated social service organizations to use taxpayer funds to discriminate. And Maggie leads Americans United's work to protect the Johnson Amendment, which is the provision in the tax code that ensures tax-exempt nonprofits, including houses of worship, do not endorse or oppose political candidates.

Maggie graduated from Hamilton College, cum laude, and graduated with honors from The George Washington Law School, where she was the Production Editor of The George Washington Law Review.

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