A civil rights attorney and long-time democracy reform advocate, Jonathan Mehta Stein is the Executive Director of California Common Cause. Previously, Jonathan spent four years as the head of the Voting Rights & Census Program at Asian Law Caucus, where he worked to increase access to California’s democracy for historically disenfranchised communities. Jonathan also worked as a voting rights staff attorney for the ACLU of California and was the Chair of the Oakland Public Ethics Commission. While receiving his MPP and JD from UC Berkeley, Jonathan served as the Student Regent on the UC’s Board of Regents, where he fought for access, diversity, and affordability in public higher education. Prior to graduate school, Jonathan spent four years at Mother Jones magazine as a researcher, assistant editor, blogger, and campaign correspondent during the 2008 presidential elections.