Keesha Gaskins

Keesha Gaskins is Senior Counsel in the Brennan Center's Democracy Program.  Prior to joining the Brennan Center, Ms. Gaskins was Executive Director for the League of Women Voters Minnesota where she worked on a wide range of voting rights and civil rights issues.  Ms. Gaskins’ portfolio is within Voting Rights and Elections with a particular focus on voter suppression issues including voter identification and proof of citizenship laws.  She is an expert on redistricting and redistricting reform.  Ms. Gaskins is a frequent lecturer and writer on issues related to women and politics, movement building and democratic reform.

Ms. Gaskins is a long-time organizer, lobbyist and an experienced trial attorney.  Ms. Gaskins graduated from Northeastern University School of Law in 1999.  Ms. Gaskins served as a law clerk for both the Minnesota Supreme Court and the Supreme Judicial Court for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. She worked as a practicing trial attorney in the areas of products liability and employment law until 2006, most notably with the trial firm of Bowman and Brooke LLP and volunteered for many years as a special appellate public defender. In 2008 Ms. Gaskins was a Feminist Leadership Fellow with the University of Minnesota, Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs - Center on Women and Public Policy.

She served on the Board of Governors for the Minnesota State Bar Association, the Board of Directors for the Minnesota Black Lawyers Association and the NAACP Minnesota-Dakota State Conference Executive Board.

Selected Public Appearances

Speaking at the Movement Building Session, Headwaters Foundation for Justice (10/12/10)

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