Leslie Proll is Senior Director of the Voting Rights Program at The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights. A former civil rights director in the Obama Administration and longtime leader at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, she has shaped national policy on voting, housing, and education. Leslie began her career litigating civil rights cases in Birmingham, Alabama, and serves on the board of the Nathaniel R. Jones Foundation. She is a graduate of UC Berkeley and UC Davis School of Law.