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Legislative and Policy Specialist, Justice Reform (Article)
Staff Attorney (Article)

The staff attorney is responsible for shaping solutions and formulating policy guidance for legal issues relating to our core and urgent issues determined by our membership. The League's core issue work includes voting rights, redistricting and census, improving elections, and campaign finance. Our urgent policy issues cover immigration, healthcare, climate change, gun safety, the national popular vote, and the electoral college.

Redistricting Watch: I Will Fight for Fair Maps Because I'm Against Prison Gerrymandering (Blog)

Prison gerrymandering is the practice of counting people based on where they're confined rather than where they're from. This inflates representation in areas where prisons are built and dilutes the voting power of the people who are incarcerated and their home communities.

Demonstrating Our Impact: LWV’s Semi-Annual Survey Project (Blog)

In 2019, I joined the League of Women Voters to help build culture of evaluation focused on outcomes of our work. To this end, during the Fall of 2020, we launched the Semi-Annual Survey Project. 

League Supports Jabra Heyer NO HATE Act (Legal Document)

The League supports the Khalid Jabara and Heather Heyer National Opposition to Hate, Assault, and Threats to Equality (Jabara-Heyer NO HATE Act)

Complexities of the Filibuster: The Accidental Rule That Is Interrupting the Democracy We All Deserve (Blog)

The League has a decade-long history of supporting filibuster reform to ensure a functioning democracy.

Redistricting Watch: We Fight for Fair Maps Because We Care About Environmental Justice (Blog)

Fair maps help residents as they seek to elect representatives who take their concerns, like clean water, seriously, who will work to clean up current pollution and prevent more from occurring.

In the Know: How the League is Transforming Money in Politics (Blog)

Voters have an interest in knowing where politicians and organizations are getting their money and how that money is being spent. To that end, dark-money and wealthy special interest groups do not need more loopholes.

LWV of California and Partners Urge the Supreme Court to Reject Challenge to California’s Charitable Reporting Law (Press Release)

The League of Women Voters of California, Campaign Legal Center (CLC), Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), and Common Cause submitted an amicus brief to the U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) in Americans for Prosperity Foundation v. Becerra.

League Endorses Creation of U.S. Commission on Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation (Legal Document)

The League our fight for racial justice in our democracy endorsed H.Con.Res.19/S.Con.Res.6,  establishing a US Commission on Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation