Ami Sanchez Associate Counsel Ami Sanchez currently is associate counsel for the National Campaign for Fair Elections, an initiative of the Voting Rights Project of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and which serves as the legal lead for Election Protection- the nation’s largest non-partisan voter protection coalition.  Sanchez supervises the development and dissemination of election law and voting rights resources to Election Protection coalition partners on national, state and local levels and coordinates pro-bono and legal volunteer efforts for several key states on behalf of Election Protection. Prior to joining the Lawyers’ Committee, she served as the assistant director for Lawyer Chapters at the American Constitution Society for Law and Policy (ACS), one of the nation’s leading progressive legal organizations dedicated to ensuring that fundamental principles of human dignity, individual rights and liberties, genuine equality, and access to justice enjoy their rightful, central place in American law.  At ACS, Sanchez worked to strengthen existing ACS lawyer chapters and build new lawyer chapters across the country as well as assisted with chapter programming and communications on behalf of ACS lawyer chapters. Prior to her time at ACS, immediately after graduating from law school and successfully completing the Texas Bar Examination, she worked for the New York State Democratic Senate Campaign Committee through Campaign Corps, a Project of EMILY’S List. While in law school, Sanchez founded the Texas Democratic Lawyers Council, a state organization under the Democratic National Committee’s National Lawyers Council, in which she helped to build a statewide network of volunteer lawyers and law students working on behalf of the Party’s voter protection efforts and dedicated to supporting state and local Democratic candidates. Also while in law school, she worked on community outreach efforts in the office of Texas State Representative Lon Burnam (D-Fort Worth), interned for Congressman Charles Gonzalez’s (TX-20) Washington, D.C. office and was a member of the Texas Wesleyan School of Law Moot Court Honor Society. Sanchez is a 2006 graduate of Texas Wesleyan University School of Law, and received her B.A. from Hollins University where she studied Political Science and Economics. The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law (LCCRUL), a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization, was formed in 1963 at the request of President John F. Kennedy to involve the private bar in providing legal services to address racial discrimination. The principal mission of the Lawyers’ Committee is to secure, through the rule of law, equal justice under law, particularly in the areas of housing, community development, employment, voting, education and environmental justice.  For more information about the LCCRUL, visit www.lawyerscommittee.org.