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Attorney with the Brennan Center for Justice

Vishal Agraharkar serves as counsel for the Brennan Center’s Democracy Program. He also previously served as Pro Bono Counsel for the Democracy Program, where his work focused on voting rights and elections. Prior to joining the Brennan Center, he clerked for the Honorable Helene N. White of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals.

Vishal received his J.D. (2010) from Columbia Law School, where he was Editor-in-Chief of A Jailhouse Lawyer’s Manual. He was also a summer associate at Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, and interned at the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division and the Texas Civil Rights Project.

Vishal received his B.A. (2005) from Williams College, where he majored in Political Science.

FROM Vishal Agraharkar

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Non-Violent Felons Regain Vote in CA Fifty years after the passage of the Voting Rights Act, the law is still being challenged. In California, Secretary of State Alex Padilla announced this week that around 45,000 non-violent felons will be getting their right to vote reinstated. He called it 'a matter of conscience.'

7 MIN, 40 SEC Aug 06, 2015

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