Marina Lowe is the legislative and policy counsel for the ACLU of Utah. In this capacity, she advocates on a variety of civil liberties issues including immigration, participatory democracy, reproductive freedom and free speech, at both the state capitol and in local government. Before joining the ACLU, Marina worked with the Salt Lake Legal Defenders Association's Appellate Division, appealing matters for indigent clients, in defense of their constitutional rights on issues ranging from the right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures, to the constitutionality of Utah legislation pertaining to child endangerment. Prior to that, Marina was an associate at the international law firm of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP in San Francisco, concentrating on commercial litigation, as well as intellectual property counseling and litigation. Marina grew up in Northern California and before graduating from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law spent two years working in marketing at Hewlett-Packard in Grenoble, France.