Presently senior counsel on voting rights for The Century Foundation; former executive director of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, the “Lobbying Arm of the Civil Rights Movement”; president and CEO of People For the American Way; chief legislative assistant to Republican senators Edward W. Brooke and David Durenberger; taught at the University of Chicago Law School, Georgetown University Law Center, and Harvard University’s Institute of Politics; graduate of the University of Notre Dame and the University of Chicago Law School.