Our Team
We’re building a world class team of attorneys and staff to support students in their litigation and advocacy work during — and beyond — their time at Election Law Clinic.
Ruth Greenwood
Director
Ruth is the Director of the Election Law Clinic and an Assistant Clinical Professor at Harvard Law School. She engages in litigation and advocacy on a variety of election law cases, while training the next generation of election lawyers.
Ruth litigated two partisan gerrymandering cases from the trial level to the Supreme Court of the United States, Gill v. Whitford and Rucho v. Common Cause. She has also litigated minority vote dilution claims under state and federal voting rights acts, racial gerrymandering claims, and cases alleging a burden on the fundamental right to vote. In addition, Ruth has advised dozens of state advocates on drafting and implementing independent redistricting commissions, state voting rights acts, and adopting ranked choice voting. Some of her publications include: Designing Independent Redistricting Commissions, Designing State VRAs, the Civic Benefits of Ranked Choice Voting, and Fair Representation in Local Government.
Ruth was previously the Co-Director of Voting Rights and Redistricting at the Campaign Legal Center, Lead Counsel for Voting Rights at the Chicago Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, and a Redistricting Fellow with the Democratic National Committee’s Voting Rights Institute. She received her LL.M from Columbia Law School in 2009, and her LL.B./B.Sc. from the University of Sydney in 2005. Ruth is admitted to practice as an attorney in Massachusetts, Illinois and New York.
Daniel Hessel
Attorney and Clinical Instructor
Daniel Hessel is a clinical instructor in the Election Law Clinic. He is a graduate of Northwestern University and Yale Law School. He clerked for Judge Christopher R. Cooper of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Before joining the Clinic, he litigated election law cases with the Campaign Legal Center and environmental cases with the Natural Resources Defense Council.
Theresa J. Lee
Litigation Director
Theresa is the Litigation Director and a clinical instructor at the Election Law Clinic. Prior to joining ELC, she was a Senior Staff Attorney in the ACLU Voting Rights Project. At the ACLU, Theresa litigated voting rights cases throughout the country, including challenges to restrictions on voter registration, felony disenfranchisement, and discriminatory voter identification and registration requirements.
Before becoming a voting rights litigator, Theresa practiced at two law firms in New York. She was a law clerk to the Hon. Rosemary S. Pooler of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and previously litigated with the San Francisco City Attorney’s Office and taught an accompanying clinic at Yale Law School.
Theresa received her J.D. from Yale Law School, and holds a master’s degree from the New School for Social Research and a bachelor’s degree from Fordham University. She is admitted to practice in New York.
Veniece Miller
Program Coordinator
As program coordinator, Veniece assists in voting rights litigation, advocacy, and policy work. She works with the team in the build-out of the Election Law Clinic, and performs research in support of its cases while administering its policies, procedures, communications, and activities.
Veniece received her B.A. from the University of Colorado Boulder in 2022 with a degree in Political Science. Her background is in grassroots organizing, where she helped to start voter engagement and other advocacy groups in high schools and college campuses across Colorado. She expanded her work to the broader community as Secretary of the League of Women Voters Colorado board for two years where she worked on initiatives to promote civic engagement.
Nicholas Stephanopoulos
Director of Strategy and Kirkland & Ellis Professor of Law
Nicholas Stephanopoulos provides strategic advice for clinic cases, helps to litigate some of these matters, and is involved in supervising student work.
Professor Nicholas Stephanopoulos’s research and teaching interests include election law, constitutional law, administrative law, legislation, and comparative law. His work is particularly focused on the intersection of democratic theory, empirical political science, and the American electoral system. His academic articles have appeared in, among others, the California Law Review, Columbia Law Review, Duke Law Journal, Harvard Law Review, Northwestern University Law Review, New York University Law Review, Stanford Law Review, University of Chicago Law Review, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Virginia Law Review, and Yale Law Journal. He has also written for popular publications including the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Atlantic, New Republic, Slate, and Vox. He has been involved in several litigation efforts as well, including two partisan gerrymandering cases based on his scholarship and decided by the Supreme Court.
Alora Thomas-Lundborg
Senior Counsel
Alora Thomas-Lundborg is the Strategic Litigation & Advocacy Director at Harvard Law School’s Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race & Justice and Senior Counsel at the Election Law Clinic. Before coming to HLS, she was a Senior Staff Attorney in the ACLU Voting Rights Project. At the ACLU, Alora litigated voting rights cases throughout the country, including challenges to voter suppression and gerrymandering. She also co-authored several amicus briefs before the Supreme Court. Prior to joining the ACLU, Alora was a litigator at WilmerHale and Simpson Thacher, and a law clerk to Chief Judge Brodie in the Eastern District of New York. Alora has her B.A. in Political Science from Yale University and a J.D. from Columbia Law School. She is admitted to practice in New York state and several federal courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court.