Ms. Strossen, a speaker and author, is expected to be a visible advocate for the organization.

And he conceded that he has not been "a civil rights leader or one of the visible advocates."

Eleanor Roosevelt was a very visible advocate for minority rights during this period.

In the last few years, Dr. Chopra has become its most visible advocate.

She soon became one of the most visible advocates of gun control, a position that propelled her to Congress three years later.

Along the way, Mr. Burke himself became a visible advocate for the 9/11 families.

Ming Ramos was a particularly visible advocate of the environment and of sports.

He had made a name for himself, and attracted big political contributions, as the most visible Democratic advocate of economic sanctions against Cuba.

Billie Jean King, the most visible advocate for the women's cause, earned over $100,000 in 1971 and 1972.