Gowri Ramachandran

Gowri Ramachandran serves as director of elections and security in the Brennan Center’s Elections and Government Program. Her work focuses on election security, election administration, and combating election disinformation.

Before joining the Brennan Center, she was a professor of law at Southwestern Law School in Los Angeles, California, where she taught courses in constitutional law, employment discrimination, critical race theory, and the Ninth Circuit Appellate Litigation Clinic. Her work was published in Election Law Journal, North Carolina Law Review, and Yale Law Journal Online, among others. She served on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals’ Fairness Committee, which considers racial, religious, gender, and other disparities in the administration of justice.

Ramachandran received an undergraduate degree in mathematics from Yale College and a master’s degree in statistics from Harvard University. While in law school, she served as editor in chief of the Yale Law Journal. After graduating from law school, Ramachandran served as a law clerk to Judge Sidney R. Thomas of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.