Laura Coates is a St. Paul native, a 2005 graduate from the University of Minnesota Law School, and a 2001 graduate of Princeton University. Laura started her career practicing law in Minnesota and New York, but was soon called to public service. She worked as a trial attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice and served during both the Bush and Obama administrations, specializing in enforcement of voting rights. She also served as an assistant U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia and as an adjunct professor at George Washington University School of Law.
She’s used her unique storytelling skills to author the bestseller, You Have the Right: A Constitutional Guide to Policing the Police. Today she hosts The Laura Coates Show on SiriusXM’s bipartisan P.O.T.U.S. channel and is also CNN’s chief legal analyst and newly named anchor of the channel’s 11p.m. ET show Laura Coates Live.
Laura routinely speaks across the country on civil rights, social justice, economic empowerment, and leaps of faith. Last year she wrote Just Pursuit: A Black Prosecutor’s Fight For Fairness about her experience as a black female federal prosecutor. She lives in Washington, D.C. with her husband and two children.
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