Desmond Meade is the President of the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition (FRRC), Chair of Floridians for a Fair Democracy, a graduate of Florida International University College of Law, a Ford Global Fellow, and a 2021 MacArthur "Genius" Fellow. Desmond leads efforts to empower and civically re-engage local communities across Florida, and to reshape local, state, and national criminal justice policies. As the leader of FRRC, which is recognized for its work on voting and criminal justice reform issues, he led the FRRC to a historic victory in 2018 with the successful passage of Amendment 4, a grassroots citizen's initiative which restored voting rights to over 1.4 million Floridians with past felony convictions.