𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗩𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗼
Dr. Cynthia McKinney discusses important election reform issues with Kathy Wilde.
Kathleen Wilde graduated from Yale Law School in 1978. She has been a civil rights lawyer for most of the past 40 years.
When she lived in Atlanta, GA, she did housing discrimination cases, handled a sexual privacy case, took on a school discrimination case in
DeKalb County, GA in which the district was more segregated when the school district moved to dismiss than when the case was filed 18 years earlier; and then worked for the
Voting Rights Project of the ACLU. While there, she challenged at large school districts and county commission districts in North Carolina, and then in 1982 proposed Congressional and state legislative districts in Georgia and North Carolina, which were by and large adopted by the United States Department of Justice. After moving to Portland OR in 1981, she became Legal Director of the Disability Rights Project, and handled dozens of disability rights cases. She retired in 2018, and took up the mandolin. She is also handling an appeal of an asylum case by a woman from Guatemala and her two children.
