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Mission
Why "lab."
Capital Rights Lab is a nonprofit civil rights organization expanding democratic rights for DC residents. We advance new legal theories, litigation models, policy reforms, and persuasion campaigns to win representation and equal citizenship.
The work builds the legal case for DC's rights today — not waiting for Congress to act.
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Leadership
Who runs it.
David Seidman founded Capital Rights Lab after more than a decade in DC law and politics as a policy advisor in the Obama White House, campaign counsel on the Biden and Harris presidential campaigns, and a litigator at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP. He holds a J.D. from Georgetown Law and a B.A. from the University of Michigan.
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