Imani Brooks serves as a Policy Counsel at LDF. In this role, Imani primarily focuses on the organization’s political participation efforts and is engaged in numerous State Voting Rights Act coalitions across the country. She has successfully advocated for the enacted of State Voting Rights Acts in Maryland, New Jersey, and Delaware and has led successful introduction efforts in Louisiana and Georgia. Imani brings legal and policy experience to her role following her clerkship at the Court of Appeals of Virginia and internship at The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights. She is a graduate of American University Washington College of Law, where she was a staff member for the Journal on Gender, Social Policy and the Law,  led the If When How: Lawyering for Reproductive Justice chapter, and provided pro bono legal services on the Navajo Reservation. Imani received her B.A. in International Studies from Emory University.

While at Emory, Imani became a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. (DST) through the Omicron Xi chapter as the youngest member in the chapter’s history. For DST, she served on the National Programming, Planning and Development Committee for five years for and is now a Member-at-Large in the South Atlantic Region.