Chiraag Bains is a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and a legal and policy strategy consultant. From 2021 to 2023, he was Deputy Director of the Domestic Policy Council and Deputy Assistant to the President for racial justice and equity for President Joe Biden. Chiraag previously led voting rights litigation at the nonprofit organization Demos and served as a senior fellow at Harvard Law School. He was a career prosecutor and senior counsel to the Assistant Attorney General in the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division.