Jonah H Goldman

Jonah H Goldman is the Director of the National Campaign for Fair Elections in the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law’s Voting Rights Project. Jonah is responsible for implementing the Campaign’s mission of developing policy and strategy to reform the administration of elections at the federal, state and local level. His responsibilities include leadership in the Election Protection Coalition, the National Network on State Election Reform, and the Lawyers’ Committee election reform advocacy and litigation docket.

The Election Protection Coalition is an unprecedented non-partisan effort of over 100 hundred organizations to protect the rights of voters. For the 2004 election, the Lawyers’ Committee had primary responsibility for recruiting, placing, and training several thousand legal volunteers and operating a national, toll-free hotline (1-866-OUR-VOTE) that received over 200,000 calls in the 2004 election cycle. Jonah played a leadership role in managing the Lawyers’ Committee’s effort in 2004, including coordinating efforts with the numerous Election Protection partners and volunteers and designing and implementing a training curriculum for legal volunteers.

Jonah co-founded the National Network on Election Reform, a consortium of national civil rights, voting rights, and civic organizations dedicated to implementing meaningful election reform at the state and national level. The National Network’s activities include commenting on how federal legislative priorities will effect state election administration, advocating for prospective, meaningful election reform, and working with advocates on the ground to develop the most successful strategies for improving the way political decision makers are elected.

Jonah has been a frequent commentator on the issues confronting American democracy. In addition to testifying before legislative bodies, he is frequently asked by the media for his opinions on the subject. Jonah has also been asked to speak about election reform in front of numerous conferences including the American Bar Association, the National Conference on State Legislatures, the NAACP, and the Southern Regional Council.

Before joining the Lawyers’ Committee, Jonah served as the Public Policy Fellow for the Jewish Council for Public Affairs (JCPA) in Washington, D.C where he was responsible for the JCPA’s legislative advocacy on a number of social justice issues including hunger relief, the extension of federal hate crimes legislation, and opposing the expansion of Charitable Choice.

Jonah graduated with honors from Binghamton University and from Boston College Law School where he received the John F. Cremens Award for outstanding work in clinical programs.

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