Justin Levitt & Garima Malhotra

Justin Levitt & Garima Malhotra

Justin Levitt

Democracy, Counsel 

Mr. Levitt works on election administration, redistricting, and a variety of other voting rights concerns. He has worked in various capacities for several presidential campaigns, including most recently as the National Voter Protection Counsel helping to run an unprecedented effort ensuring that tens of millions of citizens could vote and have those votes counted. He has also served as in-house counsel to America Coming Together, the country's largest independent voter registration and engagement operation, and worked at several nonprofit civil rights and civil liberties organizations. He is a frequent public speaker, with frequently-cited scholarship and public commentary on election issues. Mr. Levitt clerked for Judge Stephen Reinhardt of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He graduated magna cum laude with a J.D. from Harvard Law School, where he was an Articles Editor of the Harvard Law Review, and holds an M.P.A. from the Kennedy School of Government and a B.A. magna cum laude from Harvard College. He is admitted to the bar in California, New Jersey, New York, and the District of Columbia, and to the U.S. District Courts in the C.D. California and N.D. Florida.

Garima Malhotra

Research Associate, Democracy Program

Garima Malhotra joined the Democracy Program as a research associate in June 2008. She works primarily on efforts to restore voting rights to people with criminal convictions and on redistricting reform. She also worked at the Brennan Center in 2007 as a summer intern in the Democracy Program.

Ms. Malhotra graduated from Cornell University in 2008, where she majored in American Government, with minors in Inequality, and Law & Society. Previously, she worked at Project Vote where she focused on increasing voter registration among low income and minority citizens. She has also spent a summer working for AmeriCorps' Breakthrough Collaborative program in Philadelphia's public school district.

 

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