Daynard Community Roundtable: Keesha Gaskins-Nathan ’99

Winter 2022 Daynard Public Interest Visiting Fellow
KEESHA GASKINS-NATHAN ’99
Program Director, Democratic Practice–United States Program, Rockefeller Brothers Fund

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Democracy and Civil Rights: Defensive Struggles and Expansive Visions from the Local to the National
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Panelists:
Katherine Grainger ’02
Partner, Civitas Public Affairs Group

Rahsaan Hall ’98 | @rahsaandhall
Former Director, Racial Justice Program of the ACLU of Massachusetts

Lauren Sampson
Senior Attorney, Lawyers for Civil Rights

Moderator:
Jeremy Paul
Professor of Law, Northeastern University School of Law

Keesha Gaskins-Nathan is the director for the Democratic Practice–United States program at the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. Gaskins-Nathan is dedicated to advancing measures and ideas that improve democratic systems and engage democratic culture in the United States to support full and fair democratic and economic opportunity for all residents.

Gaskins-Nathan is a long-time organizer, lobbyist and trial attorney. Prior to joining the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, she was senior counsel with the Brennan Center for Justice, serving as the director of the Redistricting and Representation program. Her portfolio included redistricting reform, voting rights, and elections, with a focus on voter suppression issues. Gaskins-Nathan is a frequent lecturer and writer on issues related to women and politics, movement building, and democratic reform. She is the author of numerous articles and publications related to voter suppression, voting rights and redistricting.

Gaskins-Nathan served as executive director for the League of Women Voters Minnesota and the executive director for the Minnesota Women’s Political Caucus. She worked for several years as a civil trial attorney, and also served as a special assistant appellate public defender for the State of Minnesota.

Following law school, Gaskins-Nathan served as a shared judicial clerk for the Honorable Alan Page and the Honorable Joan Ericksen at the Minnesota Supreme Court. She was also a 2008 Feminist Leadership Fellow with the University of Minnesota, Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs - Center on Women and Public Policy. She is a frequent commentator on voting rights and redistricting reform and regularly appears on numerous news and public affairs programming, including past appearances on PBS’s NewsHour, MSNBC and Bill Moyers.