Hannah Fried

Hannah Fried is co-founder and CEO of All Voting Is Local.

Prior to co-founding and leading the organization, she served as national director and deputy general counsel for voter protection on Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. In 2012, Fried served as voter protection director for President Barack Obama’s reelection effort in Florida. From July 2009 to March 2012, she was deputy director and deputy counsel for voter protection at the Democratic National Committee. She also served on the Obama campaign’s voter protection team during the 2008 primaries and joined the advance staff for the general election in June 2008.

Fried spent several years in federal government service at the Department of Justice and the Environmental Protection Agency. She is a frequent commentator on voting rights and democracy issues and has been featured in outlets including The Washington Post, The New York Times, Axios, Rolling Stone, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, MSNBC, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and The Philadelphia Inquirer.

Fried was a 2023-24 Wasserstein Fellow at Harvard Law School and is a 2025 winner of the Elevate Prize. TIME included her on its 2025 TIME100 Next list of leaders shaping the future. She is a graduate of Williams College and Harvard Law School and is admitted to practice law in New York.