About the Alliance

Allegra Chapman is the Managing Director of Governors Safeguarding Democracy. She has over twenty years of experience in public service, state and federal civil and voting rights litigation, and democracy reform and advancement. Most recently, Allegra owned a consultancy (AAC Consulting, LLC), through which she advised civil rights groups and democracy-reform organizations on litigation, policy strategy and messaging, as well as advised philanthropists and funders on ways to ameliorate polarization. Previously, she served as voting rights director at Common Cause, where she oversaw litigation and worked with government officials on elections policy, as assistant attorney general for the Civil Rights Bureau at the New York State Attorney General’s Office, where she successfully brought racial discrimination and sex discrimination cases against major employers in the state, and as a voting rights litigator at Demos, where she also worked with government officials on settlement agreements. She serves on the boards of 100% Democracy (Chair) and Verified Voting. She also conducted First Amendment research for the Universal Voting Working Group, chaired by E.J. Dionne of the Washington Post. Allegra holds a B.A. in Philosophy from McGill University and a J.D. from Emory Law School.