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Ian Vandewalker

Ian Vandewalker serves as counsel for the Brennan Center’s Democracy Program where he works on voting rights and campaign finance reform. Prior to joining the Brennan Center, he served as a legal fellow at the Center for Reproductive Rights, where he litigated constitutional cases in state and federal courts across the country. Before that, Vandewalker served as the Rockefeller Brothers Fund Fellow in Nonprofit Law at the Vera Institute of Justice and clerked for Frederic Block of the Eastern District of New York. He earned his JD cum laude in 2008 from New York University School of Law, where he served as a senior articles editor for the NYU Review of Law and Social Change. During law school, he was an Arthur Garfield Hays Civil Liberties Fellow. He holds a master’s in philosophy from Indiana University and a bachelor’s from New College of Florida.