MARY LIUZZO LILLEBOE

board member

Mary Liuzzo-Lillebo has been a civil and human rights activist since the age of 17, when her mother, Viola Liuzzo, was executed in Lowndes County, Alabama, after responding to Dr. Martin Luther King’s call to action following the events of Bloody Sunday on the Edmund Pettus Bridge.

Mary is an advanced trainee at the Connecticut Center for Nonviolence where she teachers Dr. King’s nonviolence philosophy and methodology to resolve conflict.  She has presented nonviolence training for youth from elementary to high school and provides core workshops to universities and corporations. She also facilitated a three-day workshop for Congress on Kingian principles of nonviolence.

Mary has acted as a consultant on civil rights books and documentaries, telling the story of her mother.. She was a Civil Rights Luminaire for the late Congressman John Lewis Civil Rights Pilgrimage for over 6 years.

Mary has received countless awards and recognitions and attended ceremonies and conferences with children of the martyrs. She has received the National Evelyn Gibson Lowery award along with former Madam Secretary Hillary Clinton.

She was asked by the late Congressman John Lewis' family to speak at his memorial service.