Orlando Economos is a Legal Fellow at Democracy Forward.

His work includes challenges designed to preserve civil rights remedies against attempted diminution, as well as affirmative actions to increase the access of citizens to democracy. 

Orlando received his J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center, where he focused on election law and voting rights. He served as legal assistant to Civil Rights Commissioner David Kladney, and later presented oral argument to the D.C. Circuit as a student attorney with the Civil Rights Clinic at Georgetown. 

Orlando is native to northern New Jersey. He holds a B.A. in International Relations from Tufts University and a diploma from St. John the Theologian Greek Orthodox Cathedral’s Greek Afternoon School.