Maya Harris has been an influential voice at the intersection of politics, public policy and civil rights for over two decades. A lawyer, policy advocate and writer, Maya served as a senior advisor to two historic U.S. presidential candidates (Clinton 2016, Harris 2020), directed the global Democracy Rights & Justice program of the Ford Foundation, and led the largest ACLU affiliate in the nation. While a Visiting Scholar at Harvard Law School and a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress, Maya authored the groundbreaking report, Women of Color: A Growing Force in the American Electorate, documenting the prominence of women of color, especially Black women, in influencing political outcomes. She was an on-air political and legal analyst for MSNBC, has published commentary in numerous media outlets, and been profiled in The New Yorker, Washington Post, and O The Oprah Magazine, among other publications. Maya is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley and received her law degree with honors from Stanford Law School.