Michelle Kanter Cohen (she/her) serves as Policy Director and Senior Counsel with Fair Elections Center. Her work in the Voting Rights Project focuses on moving forward Fair Elections Center’s policy priorities at the state and national levels, leading the team maintaining the organization’s 50-state resources for voters and civic engagement organizations, and addressing emergent voting rights policy issues. She also litigates voting rights cases to remove barriers to citizens’ exercising their freedom to vote, such as fighting to stop aggressive voter purging and other voter registration restrictions.
Kanter Cohen has been a voting rights advocate for most of her legal career, and is a national expert on voter registration and election administration issues. She is a member of the American Bar Association (“ABA”)’s Standing Committee on Election Law and authored the chapter on voting in the ABA Section of Civil Rights and Social Justice’s 2023 book, The Legal and Social Ramifications of Pandemics on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties.
Prior to joining Fair Elections Center, Kanter Cohen spent five years at another voting rights organization as a litigator and advocate for voting rights, focusing on the areas of voter registration and election administration. Kanter Cohen began her legal career as a litigation associate at WilmerHale LLP in Washington, DC.
Kanter Cohen earned her J.D., magna cum laude, from Boston College Law School, and a B.A., cum laude, in Political Science from Yale University. She is a member of the following bars:
– U.S. Supreme Court
– U.S. Courts of Appeals (Fourth, Sixth, Ninth, Tenth, and Federal Circuits)
– District of Columbia
– U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
– U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin
– Massachusetts (inactive)
She can be reached at mkantercohen@fairelection.codpixels.com
