Join ACS on Wednesday, October 12 in SLB 127 12:10pm-1:15pm for a panel on Race and Voting Rights. This event is co-sponsored by BLSA and Dems.
Speakers presenting virtually:
Amir Badat: Manager of the Voting Rights Defender and Prepared to Vote Projects (VRD/PTV) and Voting Special Counsel, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund.
As Manager of VRD/PTV, Amir leads LDF’s year-round election protection and voter education efforts, using legal, organizing, and advocacy tools to ensure that Black voters across the South have open access to the ballot box. As Voting Special Counsel, Amir uses litigation, legislative, and public education strategies to promote racial justice in area of political participation. Amir is part of the litigation team in Houston Area Urban League v. Abbott, a case challenging Texas’s enactment of an omnibus voter suppression bill following the historic participation of Black voters in the 2020 general election.
Amir has extensive experience in the voting rights and voter protection space. He has led state-wide voter protection programs and coordinated voter protection efforts for national campaigns.
Hilary Harris Klein: Senior Counsel, Voting Rights at the Southern Coalition for Social Justice.
Hilary Harris Klein joined Southern Coalition for Social Justice in 2020 and serves as Senior Counsel for the voting rights program, where her practice focuses on trial advocacy, anti-prison gerrymandering initiatives, and providing legal and other advocacy support to individuals and coalition partners throughout the South. In 2020, Hilary acted as lead counsel in Democracy NC v. North Carolina State Board of Elections, securing a preliminary injunction requiring all voters in North Carolina to receive notice and the opportunity to cure errors on their absentee ballot applications. More recently, she served as lead trial counsel, along with Allison Riggs, in the successful challenge to North Carolina’s 2021 state legislative and congressional maps as unconstitutional partisan gerrymanders in Harper v. Moore on behalf of Plaintiff Common Cause.
Sponsoring Organization(s)
American Constitution Society
