Lisa Danetz

Lisa J. Danetz has worked in the voting rights, money in politics, and democracy field as a policy expert, advocate, and lawyer for 20 years. Her work has focused on increasing election- and campaign-based political participation in society through public policy research, litigation, executive and legislative advocacy, and public education, and she has developed a particular expertise on voter registration through government agencies. As a consultant, her most recent work has been with Democracy Fund. She is also the former legal director of Demos, a New York-based public policy center, and worked at National Voting Rights Institute.

Ms. Danetz has published and been a frequent speaker on voting rights issues, including testimony regarding agency-based voter registration before the Senate Rules and Administration Committee, the Subcommittee on Elections of the Committee on House Administration, and the United States Commission on Civil Rights. She’s been quoted in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Bloomberg, among other publications. She has also appeared on television and radio. Ms. Danetz received her B.S. from Yale University and her J.D. cum laude from New York University School of Law.

She tweets from @lisadanetz.