Diana Kasdan

Diana Kasdan serves as counsel for the Brennan Center’s Democracy Program. As part of the Voting Rights and Election team, Ms. Kasdan focuses on litigation and advocacy to enhance political participation, prevent voter disenfranchisement, and ensure election integrity. Prior to joining the Brennan Center, Ms. Kasdan was a senior staff attorney at the ACLU Reproductive Freedom Project where she litigated a variety of constitutional and civil rights cases in federal and state courts across the country. Ms. Kasdan also developed and led the Project's nationwide advocacy campaign to promote state legislation restricting the use of restraints on pregnant inmates and to improve correctional policies regulating the conditions and care of pregnant women.

Ms. Kasdan graduated magna cum laude from New York University School of Law where she was inducted into The Order of the Coif, was an Arthur Garfield Hay Civil Liberties Fellow, a recipient of the George P. Foulk Memorial Award for Distinguished Scholarship and the Ann Petluck Poses Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Immigrant Rights Clinic, and served as a notes editor for the NYU Law Review. Following law school, Ms. Kasdan clerked for the Honorable Nicholas G. Garaufis of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York. Ms. Kasdan holds a B.A. in political science from Washington University.