Brown Center for Civil Rights and Economic Development at St. John’s University. In addition to conducting research on election law and voting rights issues, she teaches Election Law and Political Participation, Comparative Election Law, Voting Rights Seminar, and Professional Responsibility. In the year before she joined St. John’s, Professor Nelson was a Fulbright Scholar at the Legal Resources Center in Accra, Ghana, where she researched the political disfranchisement of persons with criminal convictions and what it portends for the advancement of democracy in Ghana.