Courtney Spellacy (she/her) is Chief Development Officer at Public Rights Project, bringing years of experience helping donors power civil rights and social justice causes across the country.

Throughout her career, Courtney has helped donors fuel some of the most consequential civil rights battles of our time — including fighting back against Sheriff Joe Arpaio and Arizona’s anti-immigrant SB1070, passing precedent-setting digital privacy legislation in California, protecting and advancing DEI initiatives, and mobilizing legal resources to hold January 6th insurrectionists accountable.

Courtney spent a decade in senior leadership at the ACLU, working across affiliates in Arizona, Southern California, and Massachusetts. She then served as Vice President of Development at the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, and most recently as Chief Development Officer at Sandy Hook Promise. Across all organizations, she led enterprise-wide fundraising strategy, connecting individual, foundation, and corporate donors to the civil rights and social justice work that matters most.

A relationship builder, Courtney has deep experience working with donor advisors, cross-generational family philanthropies, and giving circles — bringing donors into close partnership with the civil rights issues of our time.