Gilda R. Daniels is a Professor of Law at the University of Baltimore School of Law. She teaches Election Law, Appellate Advocacy, Federal Courts, Civil Procedure, and Critical Legal Theory, which includes jurisprudence, critical race theory, socioeconomics, and access to justice.   Professor Daniels is a former Deputy Chief in the Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, Voting Section. She also served as Litigation Director at Advancement Project National Office-supporting the justice, education, immigrants’ rights and voting projects, a Consultant at the Campaign Legal Center, and a staff attorney at the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law.   

She is the author of UNCOUNTED: The Crisis of Voter Suppression in America (NYU Press, released January 2020, paperback release October 2021). Her scholarship focuses on the intersections of race, law, and democracy. Her law review articles have appeared in California Law Review, George Washington Law Review, Kentucky Law Journal, Cardozo Law Review, Denver Law Review, and New York University Journal of Legislation and Public Policy. She clerked in the United States Circuit Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit with the Honorable Joseph W. Hatchett.  She is a graduate of New York University School of Law, where she was a Root Tilden Scholar, and Grambling State University. Her website, gildadaniels.com, serves as a resource for voting information and  promotes her scholarship.