shareal. shareal. . she d currently the head of the naacp legal defense fund though she s stepping down next year. she started in 1988 working on issues of voter rights. and as you re about to hear, we live now in a moment where the right to vote is under assault, where democracy itself is under assault and a nearly unprecedented fashion in certain ways, but is in line with a long history of pro-democracy and anti-democracy forces in american life often that have revolved around the color line, specifically around white supremacy and anti-black racism. and she has been part of that fight and the lineage of that fight in the naacp legal defense fund stretching back to brown v. board and cases like that that were pushed by the folks at naacp. she has a really unique perspective about what this moment is. and i will say we sat down