As Jared Keenan, former legal director for the American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona, takes up the helm at the Arizona Center for Law in the Public Interest, he asks himself, if not me, who, and if not now, when?

From facing the state as a public defender to taking up the center’s mission to defend civil and legal rights statewide, Keenan follows the thread of government accountability wherever it leads him.

What led you to the Center for Law in the Public Interest?

I don’t know if there ever is a linear path to these types of positions, but I started my career as a public defender. I was a public defender in Boston, Massachusetts, and in Mohave County for a short period, and in Yavapai County. And I thought, at least when I started that work, that it might be what my whole career w

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