The Coalition is organized by a Steering Committee formed by consensus in 2004. Beginning in January 2008, annual elections will be held to elect a seven member Steering Committee whose members will serve two years.
 
The Steering Committee is responsible for the following tasks:

• vetting of member nominees;
• vetting of funding proposals submitted by member organizations for MCHR initiatives;
• drafting of agendas for plenary sessions;
• participation in conference calls and periodic email communications for decision-making between meetings;
• setting of policy; and
• electing two Steering Committee members to serve as co-conveners whose responsibility it is to initiate meetings, select meeting chairs, and ensure necessary follow-up.

Nominations for Steering Committee members will be sought from the membership every other winter. In making nominations and in subsequent voting, members are encouraged to consider the importance of having gender and racial/ethnic diversity as well as geographical and organizational diversity represented on the committee. New Steering Committee members will be elected by ballot sent to each organizational member.  The new Committee will convene at the beginning of the next calendar year.

Current Steering Committee Members

Bernardine Dohrn – Director, Children and Family Justice Center, Northwestern University School of Law (Chicago)
Gerald Frazier - President, Citizens Alert (Chicago)
Barbara Frey – Director, Human Rights Program, University of Minnesota (Minneapolis)
Sala Gembala - Staff Attorney, Advocates for Basic Legal Equality (Toledo)
Sid Mohn – President, Heartland Alliance for Human Needs & Human Rights (Chicago)
Darcy Tromanhauser - Director, Immigrant Integration and Civic Participation Program, Nebraska Appleseed Center for Law in the Public Interest (Lincoln)
Amy Weismann - Deputy Director, University of Iowa Center for Human Rights (Iowa City)