Bio
Gina Elleby (she/her) is an associate staff attorney with the ACLU of Maryland, where she has been a dedicated member of the team for over a decade. She is admitted to practice before state courts and the federal district courts in Maryland. A 2010 graduate of Howard University School of Law, Gina brings both deep institutional knowledge and an abiding commitment to community to her work.
Gina came to legal work with a clear sense of purpose: to address the heavy toll of mass incarceration in her community. That calling shaped her early years at the ACLU of Maryland, where she developed expertise in administrative prison processes in support of what would become the ACLU of Maryland “Freedom Bus” initiative, as well as other cases across the organization's priorities. She also managed a robust legal request system that connected everyday people — whose lives had been upended by systemic oppression — to available legal mechanisms to address their harm, and led informal, out-of-court resolutions that delivered real relief without waiting for a courtroom.
Before her legal career, Gina worked in art museums, protecting and amplifying visual art that recorded and resisted the social and political conflicts of its time — work that, not unlike civil rights law, insisted that history be seen, named, and reckoned with.
Today, Gina looks forward to applying her skills and hard-won knowledge to criminal legal and immigration reform on behalf of the everyday people our systems should prioritize and serve.
