Project Vote welcomes new Voting Rights Legal Research Assistant Janissia Orgill.
Janissia is currently a third-year law school student at American University Washington College of Law, where she has focused her studies on criminal and civil rights law. Janissia’s spare time is devoted to being a student leader in the Mock Trial Honor Society, a dean’s fellow, and a student attorney in the Criminal Justice Clinic at her school. After graduation, she will be a public defender in her hometown of Brooklyn, New York. She received her Bachelor of the Arts degree from Northwestern University.
“In this very exciting election season, working with Project Vote to improve access to voting information has been equally exciting,” said Janissia.
“Every state has its own unique system that a citizen has to navigate in order to participate in the political process. It can be confusing, to say the least,” she said. “In my position, I work on Electionary.info to answer questions and assist people in voting. It has been great working on something that will have a big impact on voters.”