Rebecca Lucero ’07 Appointed Commissioner of Minnesota Department of Human Rights

Minnesota Gov.-elect Tim Walz has appointed Rebecca Lucero ’07 as commissioner of the state’s Department of Human Rights. 

Lucero currently serves as the public policy director at the Minnesota Council of Nonprofits.

She previously served as policy and advocacy manager and global village leader for Twin Cities Habitat for Humanity, as senior community representative for Rep. Keith Ellison, as an unemployment law judge with the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development, and as an attorney with a civil rights firm and with the Legal Aid Society of Minneapolis. She is a board member for Gender Justice.