Legal Defense Fund attorney Jared Evans joins Lurie to discuss redistricting and why it matters.
About Jared Evans
Jared Evans currently serves as Senior Policy Counsel with the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), the nation’s oldest and foremost civil rights law organization. Jared’s practice area at LDF is focused on political participation, with a particular emphasis on voting rights and redistricting, and has served as LDF’s census coordinator since 2019. During the post-2020 Census redistricting cycle—the first in decades with severely weakened legal protections—Jared led the planning and strategy of challenges to Louisiana’s congressional and state legislative maps.