Uncounted: The Crisis of Voter Suppression in America w/ Gilda R. Daniels

David talks to Gilda Daniels about her book, Uncounted The Crisis of Voter Suppression in America.​Gilda Daniels serves as an Associate Professor at the University of Baltimore School of Law.  She is a nationally recognized voting rights and election law expert.  She served as a Deputy Chief in the Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, Voting Section under the Clinton and Bush administrations.  Professor Daniels has two decades of litigation, negotiation and consulting experience in the substantive voting rights area.  She has investigated, negotiated and litigated cases involving the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the National Voter Registration Act and other voting statutes.  While a Deputy Chief in the Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, Voting Section,  she supervised, inter alia, the Tennessee NVRA case that continues to serve as a model for other NVRA actions and United States v. Berks County, PA, that was brought pursuant to Sections 2, 4(e), and 208 of the VRA.    

She is also the Director of Litigation for Advancement Project’s National Office, which is a multi-racial civil rights organization.  She supervises attorneys in four program areas:  Power & Democracy (voting rights), Opportunity to Learn (education), Justice (policing and criminalization) and Immigrant Justice (immigration).  

She has drafted and participated in amicus briefs filed in the United States Supreme Court, frequently consults on voting rights issues, and is well published. 

Her scholarship focuses on the intersections of race law and democracy.   Her law review articles have appeared in Cardozo Law Review, Indiana University Law Review (Indianapolis), Denver Law Review, New York University Journal of Legislation and Public Policy.  Her writings have also been published in the Huffington Post and various other publications.  She has been quoted in the Washington Post and interviewed for NPR’s All things Considered.  Her book , UNCOUNTED:  Voter Suppression in the United States (NYU Press) will be released in January 2020. 

Links to Gilda R. Daniels:

https://twitter.com/gilda_daniels

http://www.gildadaniels.com/

https://nyupress.org/9781479862351/uncounted/

 https://nyupress.org/author/gilda-r-daniels/