Claire Guthrie Gastañaga is a non-profit governance consultant and legal counsel with decades of experience as an attorney, business owner, non-profit leader, advocate, and fundraiser. She was the E.D. of the ACLU-VA from 2012-2021 when the organization grew from six to more than twenty employees and engaged in collaborative efforts to protect and expand voting rights, including a constitutional amendment to guarantee the right to vote, and to reform the criminal legal system including legalizing marijuana, bringing accountability to policing and ending solitary confinement. Claire has served on the boards of the Richmond Metropolitan Convention and Visitors Bureau, the Poe Museum, the Girl Scouts of the Commonwealth Council, and on the Commission to Re-engineer Richmond City Government. She currently serves on the Boards of Leadership Metro Richmond and The MBL. Claire was honored as one of the Women Who Drive Richmond in 2025.
