Dr. Micah W. Kubic

Dr. Micah W. Kubic has served as the Executive Director of the ACLU of Kansas since January 2022.  With more than twenty years of experience in civil rights and racial justice work, Micah leads one of the largest advocacy organizations in the state, defending and strengthening the rights that belong to everyone under the Constitution.  Micah previously served as the ACLU of Kansas’s executive director from 2015 to 2018.  From 2019 to 2022, Micah was the executive director of the ACLU of Florida, one of the largest ACLU affiliates in the country. 

Prior to joining the staff of the ACLU, Micah was the Director of Planning, Development, and Evaluation at the Full Employment Council.  Micah led the planning, research, evaluation, government compliance, program design, resource development, and community engagement activities of this $17 million Kansas City area workforce development agency.  Micah previously served as a Senior Program Officer at Greater Kansas City Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC), where he worked directly with six urban core neighborhoods to improve their quality of life. Micah has worked as legislative director for a Kansas City councilman, an analyst of education policy at the American Federation of Teachers, an analyst of housing policies at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, and as a political consultant.

Micah holds bachelors’ degrees from the George Washington University, as well as a master’s degree and a doctorate in Black Politics from Howard University.

His first book, Freedom, Inc. and Black Political Empowerment, was published by the University of Missouri Press in 2016.