Blair Bowie is an Adjunct Professor of Law and teaches an election law practicum. Blair also directs Campaign Legal Center’s Restore Your Vote project, which fights voter suppression caused by contact with the criminal legal system. The program focuses on ending felony disenfranchisement and ensuring ballot access for eligible incarcerated voters by democratizing rights restoration services and working with directly impacted communities to dismantle systemic barriers to the ballot box through advocacy, litigation and policy change.

Blair joined Campaign Legal Center in 2017 as a Skadden Foundation Fellow with a focus on fighting Alabama’s felony disenfranchisement law, a Jim Crow relic. In 2018, Blair started the Alabama Voting Rights Project, in partnership with Southern Poverty Law Center, which deployed organizers across Alabama to conduct outreach to thousands of recently re-enfranchised Alabamians train hundreds of community leaders on the voting rights restoration process; and conduct a robust public education campaign around changes to the state’s law. Following the success of that initiative, Blair founded CLC’s Restore Your Vote project and developed RestoreYourVote.org, a tool which allows prospective voters to understand their eligibility to vote after a felony and navigate their state’s voting rights restoration process. Restore Your Vote has run on-the-ground organizing campaigns; targeted digital outreach in dozens of states; and supported the voting rights restoration and jail voting efforts of grassroots organizations across the country.

Prior to joining CLC, Blair worked for five years as an advocate and organizer with the aim of increasing political equality and accountability. As the democracy advocate with the U.S. Public Interest Research Group, Blair co-authored several reports on the post-Citizens United impact of money in politics; coordinated campaigns and messaging across the organization’s chapters; and served as its federal lobbyist on campaign finance reform. Prior to that, Blair ran grassroots environmental issue campaigns in eight cities across the country.

Blair is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Law School and Middlebury College. At Penn Law, Blair served as a Toll Public Interest Scholar, founded the Democracy Law Project and was granted the Dean Jefferson B. Fordham Human Rights Award. They are admitted to practice law in the District of Columbia and the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.