Erica Peresman is a Senior Advisor at Promote the Vote. She is an attorney, voting rights advocate, and elections expert who has worked on advancing ballot access and fighting voter suppression in Michigan for more than two decades. Erica was part of the leadership team for Proposal 3 of 2018, serving on the committee that drafted the constitutional amendment and then, as a member of the Executive Committee of Promote the Vote, helping to get the ballot proposal passed. From 2019 through 2022, Erica served as the first permanent Voter Protection Director of the Michigan Democratic Party, a position that enabled her to advocate statewide for the robust implementation of Proposal 3 and educate voters about their new rights. Under Erica’s leadership, the MDP’s voter protection program expanded to encompass defending democracy on multiple fronts, year round every year. Before focusing on voting rights, Erica practiced business law at Pettit & Martin in San Francisco and at Pepper Hamilton in Detroit, where she was a partner. Erica earned a bachelor’s degree in Humanities from the University of Chicago and a law degree from Stanford Law School.