Liz Kennedy is as an attorney and advocate working for a healthy democracy. She focuses on money in politics issues to fight corruption of democratic government and to increase transparency and accountability, and works to expand political participation and prevent voter disenfranchisement.
Prior to joining Demos, Liz was an Attorney in the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for Justice, working on issues of money in politics, democratic accountability, and corporate governance responses to Citizens United. Liz served as deputy director of voter protection for the 2008 Obama campaign in Ohio. She has represented unions in industrial bankruptcy and labor democracy cases, and worked as a litigation associate at Cravath, Swaine & Moore. Liz’s writing has appeared in the American Prospect, the Boston Herald, the Cleveland Plain Dealer, the Los Angeles Daily News, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, The Hill’s Congress Blog, and the Huffington Post.
Netroots Nation participation
- Netroots Nation 2012