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Jonathan Diaz

Director of Voting Advocacy and Partnerships, Campaign Legal Center

Jonathan Diaz

Jonathan manages CLC's work to protect election results and defend against election sabotage and works directly with CLC's litigation, communications, and policy teams to help set organizational strategy on voting rights and elections advocacy. He also works directly with election officials at the state and local level to improve election administration processes, and represents CLC in democracy reform coalitions to coordinate legal, advocacy, and messaging strategies with partner organizations across the country.Jonathan Diaz is the Director of Voting Advocacy and Partnerships at the Campaign Legal Center (CLC) in Washington, DC, where he advocates for laws and policies that expand the freedom to vote for all Americans, leads CLC's work on election protection and combatting election sabotage, and coordinates CLC's relationships with national, state, and local voting rights partners.

Jonathan manages CLC's work to protect voters and defend election results, working directly with CLC's litigation, communications, and policy teams to help set organizational strategy on voting rights and elections advocacy. He also works directly with election officials at the state and local level to improve election administration processes and coordinates legal, advocacy, and messaging strategies with partner organizations across the country.

As an attorney on CLC's voting rights team, Jonathan has litigated voting rights cases in federal courts across the United States, including LULAC v. Executive Office of the President (challenging the Trump Executive Order on Voting), LUCHA v. Fontes (challenging Arizona's burdensome and discriminatory proof-of-citizenship requirements for voter registration), VoteAmerica v. Raffensperger (challenging Georgia's restrictions on civic engagement activity) and Raysor v. Lee (challenging Florida's conditioning of rights restoration for voters with felony convictions on the payment of legal fines, fees, and other financial obligations).

Jonathan regularly provides commentary on voting rights and election law issues in the media, including and CNN, where he was an election law analyst during the 2020 election cycle, as well as Telemundo and various online and print publications. He also serves as an Adjunct Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center. He is a proud graduate of Harvard Law School and the University of Miami.

Panel Information

CIVIC ENGAGEMENT - The Latino Surge: Redefining Consumers, Reshaping Politics

3:30 PM

This session examines the transformative impact of Latino civic engagement on American politics and consumer markets. As the Latino population continues to grow in economic and electoral influence, learn how this demographic shift is redefining political strategies and consumer targeting across the nation. The discussion will highlight successful voter mobilization efforts, analyze barriers to participation, and outline actionable strategies for increasing Latino representation and influence in civic spaces. Participants will gain insights into leveraging collective power to drive policy change and economic opportunity through strategic civic engagement.