Charles M. Goolsby, Jr. – Coordinator: LibertadLatina.org
www.LibertadLatina.org
Chuck@LibertadLatina.org
www.ChuckGoolsby.com
(301) 540-7170
Charles Martel Goolsby, Jr. is a professional software management and process engineering consultant living in
Germantown, Maryland, a suburb of Washington, DC. Since 1983 Charles has provided computer services
expertise to The NAACP, The DC Latino Civil Rights Task Force, the American Red Cross, numerous federal
agencies, Montgomery County Police Department and a large number of local corporations and associations.
Charles has made the defense of basic human rights a cornerstone of his lifework for over 20 years. Charles is
of African-American, Muskogee and Catawba Native-American, and European ethnicity and celebrates all of
those ancestral roots. Charles strives to build racial and gender equality and unity through active human rights
work and through over 20 years of work as a professional musician.
Charles is a veteran of 25 years of paid and voluntary community service for many Latino community
organizations. They include: Centro Adelante – where he was a Vista Volunteer working on immigration issues;
The Latin-American Youth Center; The School of Rumba - the Washington area's first Latino music school; and
El Centro de Arte, a long-time Latino theater arts and music center. He also worked in the production and
announcing of radio news and music programming on one of DC's first bilingual programs, “Salsa de las
Americas” (Sauce of the Americas) on WPFW, 89.3 FM, which combined Latin-American popular music with
extensive coverage of immigrant concerns in the Washington, DC area.
Charles has coordinated the publicity, entertainment and logistics for over 40 non-profit fund-raising events since
1978. He provided calendar of events services to the newspapers El Barrio and El Latino and for Sauce of the
Americas, and created his own newsletter "What's Happening this Week" to help publicize services and events
for groups such as "The Family Place," for teen mothers, the Ayuda legal services agency and Andromeda
mental health center. He has also done volunteer work with many local Latino folklore groups and was the first
American member of several troupes from Bolivia, Ecuador, Colombia, and Puerto Rico. Charles has performed
over 570 times with 27 Latin folk groups and dance bands.
Since 1985 Charles has worked to leverage his fluency in Spanish, notoriety as a musician and knowledge of
employment and criminal law to defend local Latin immigrant girls and women from widespread practices of
sexual assault, quid-pro-quo sexual demands, wage abuses and retaliatory firings. These outrages are common
in low wage office and hotel cleaning jobs and in restaurants.
Since 1988 Charles has assisted seven Latin-American immigrant women in filing discrimination complaints
before the Office of Human Rights of Montgomery County, Md., having served as victim advocate and translator
in these cases. Charles has intervened for, sought legal assistance for, and advocated for women victims of the
above-mentioned abuses. Charles is currently utilizing his Internet marketing skills to network with like-minded
organizations to make advocacy more effective in defense of the basic rights of girls and women to live in
freedom from sexual coercion, assault and oppression.
As a Board member (1999-2002) and as Executive Director (2001) of Captive Daughters, Inc., Charles
continued his advocacy for the dignity and rights of women and children with a focus on Latin America. Charles
expanded the quality and content of www.CaptiveDaughters.org during 2002.
During the year 2000, Charles provided extensive background information on the Latin American aspects of the
human trafficking issue to ABC News 20/20, NBC Dateline and Latina, the largest U.S. Latin women's magazine.
During 2004 and 2005 Charles provided expertise on trafficking issues to researchers from CNN and Univision.
In March of 2001 Charles created a comprehensive human rights web site: http://www.LibertadLatina.org that
covers a wide range of women’s and children’s exploitation issues. This site focuses upon the vulnerabilities to
sexual exploitation faced by indigenous and Latin American women and children across the Americas.
During early 2003, Charles developed the early drafts of a paper by Dr. Melissa Farley on Mexico to U.S.
trafficking. Charles has presented these issues at conferences attended by agencies such as the International
Organization for Migration, the Organization of American States, U.S. Homeland Security, State, and Justice.
As global sex trafficking and conditions of diminished respect for women and children’s basic human rights
continue to increase the crisis of exploitation facing women and children in the Americas, Charles continues to
network with advocates, organizations and government agencies. The goal: to actively defend and also support
the spiritual healing of children, women and men, creating a bright future of dignity, true equality and freedom
across barriers of race, gender, social condition and migratory status.