Sean Morales-Doyle
Sean Morales-Doyle is the senior director of the Brennan Center’s Voting Rights and Elections Program. He leads the organization’s efforts to protect voting rights and build the democracy voters deserve. He and his team use a combination of policy research and development, state and federal legislative advocacy, litigation, and communications to advance voting rights nationwide.
Prior to joining the Brennan Center, Morales-Doyle was a shareholder at a Chicago law firm where he litigated all manner of civil rights and constitutional matters and represented workers and unions in a wide variety of labor and employment cases. Before that, he served as an assistant attorney general for Illinois in the Special Litigation Bureau, where he investigated and litigated cases involving consumer fraud and false claims.
Morales-Doyle has extensive experience litigating at both the trial and appellate levels, having represented parties in dozens of cases in courts across the country, as well as in many administrative proceedings and arbitrations. He has authored numerous amicus briefs, testified before Congress and in state legislatures, and led or advised on many successful campaigns to pass pro-voter legislation and ballot initiatives. He is a frequent public speaker and media commentator, with appearances on television and radio outlets including ABC, CNN, MS NOW, and NPR. His writing has been featured in The Atlantic, Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, and The Washington Post, among others.
Morales-Doyle earned a BA and a JD from Northwestern University. He served as a law clerk to Judge William J. Hibbler of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
