Jared Evans currently serves as a senior policy counsel with the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), the nation’s oldest and foremost civil rights law organization. Jared’s practice area at LDF is focused on political participation, with a particular emphasis on voting rights, the census, and redistricting.
During the 2021 redistricting cycle in Louisiana, Jared led the civil rights and racial justice coalition, a group of 16 human and civil rights organizations, in advocating for greater minority representation on all governmental and legislative bodies, including the Louisiana Supreme Court, the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, and the United States Congress. Jared also led the coalition’s efforts in successfully pressuring the Governor to veto the congressional map passed by the legislature that packed Black voters into just one district and lobbying the legislature to sustain the Governor’s veto. The coalition’s efforts resulted in the construction of a robust and comprehensive record of racial discrimination at every step of the legislative process in preparation for litigation.

Prior to joining LDF, Jared held legislative and policy positions with the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, the Louisiana House of Representatives, and served in the offices of former U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu, former Louisiana State Representative and Senator Rick Gallot, and Washington, DC Mayor Muriel Bowser.

Jared is a magna cum laude graduate of Grambling State University and holds law degrees from Southern University Law Center and the George Washington University School of Law. He is a member of the Washington Bar Association Young Lawyer’s Division, Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc., and St. Augustine Catholic Church. He also serves as an Adjunct Professor at Southern University Law Center and is licensed to practice law in all courts in Louisiana and the District of Columbia.