Caitlin Swain is Co-Founder and Executive Director of Forward Justice. With two decades of experience as an organizer, legal advocate, and policy expert, she has dedicated her career to building a more just society. In founding Forward Justice, Swain sought to build an organization that could strengthen social movements' unified work to combat the systems, policies, and practices upholding racism and economic injustice in the U.S. South. Swain's movement lawyering work has included groundbreaking voting rights and criminal justice litigation campaigns, including NC NAACP v. McCrory, in which she represented the NC NAACP and individual plaintiffs in a successful challenge to an omnibus voter suppression law—one that the Fourth Circuit found had deliberately targeted African Americans "with almost surgical precision" to depress Black voting power. She has co-led innovative voter protection and voter registration programs across six election cycles, brought historic re-enfranchisement litigation, and mounted novel legal challenges to discriminatory barriers to voting in state and federal court. She proudly serves as counsel to the Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival, supporting historic work to eliminate poverty and usher in a Third Reconstruction agenda for the country. Swain earned her bachelor's degree from Wesleyan University and her J.D. from Duke University School of Law.