Joanna Zdanys

Joanna Zdanys serves as deputy director in the Brennan Center’s Elections and Government Program, focusing on advancing reforms in the area of money in politics. Zdanys provides policy advice to lawmakers across the country and has testified before state and local legislators.

Before joining the Brennan Center, Zdanys clerked for Judge LaShann DeArcy Hall of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. Before her clerkship, Zdanys was a litigation associate in the New York office of Morrison & Foerster LLP.

Zdanys holds a bachelor’s degree in English from Yale College and a master’s degree in English and comparative literature from Columbia University. She earned her JD from Fordham University, where she was the editor in chief of the Fordham Urban Law Journal and a Stein Scholar for the Public Interest.