Rosalind Gold is the chief public policy officer of the National Association of Latino Elected Officials (NALEO) Educational Fund. ^{1 2} At NALEO Education Fund, Gold coordinates the organization’s publications and focuses its advocacy on civic integration, election administration, voting access, redistricting, and the U.S. Census. ^{3 4 5}

Gold is a member of the left-of-center National Task Force on Election Crises, ⁶ sits on the board of directors of the National Institute on Money in Politics and the board of directors of Open Secrets, ⁷ and chairs the Future of California Elections Board of Advisors. ^{8 9 10}

Gold has said that she wants U.S. naturalization exams to only require “basic English language fluency” ¹¹ and has advocated for increased language access for non-English-speaking voters. ¹² She has also claimed that an “anti-immigrant” attitude in the U.S. encouraged Hispanic immigrants to participate in elections. ¹³

Career

Rosalind Gold has been the chief public policy officer of the National Association of Latino Elected Officials (NALEO) Educational Fund since 1989. ^{14 15} She has also worked as NALEO’s senior director of naturalization programs. ¹⁶

In her role at NALEO, Gold coordinates the organization’s publications, including the Directory of Latino Elected Officials, the Latino Election Handbook, and Latino Election Profiles. ¹⁷ She focuses NALEO’s advocacy on civic integration, election reform, voting rights, redistricting, and the U.S. Census. Gold has said that she wants U.S. naturalization exams to only require “basic English language fluency” ¹⁸ and has advocated for increased language access for non-English-speaking voters. ¹⁹

In 2020, Gold helped lead the NALEO Educational Fund and the Latino Community Foundation (LCF)’s 2020 Census efforts to count Hispanic residents. ²⁰ She also thinks the Democratic Party “could be doing better” to increase Hispanic voter participation. ²¹ In 2001, she claimed that an “anti-immigrant” attitude in the U.S. encouraged Hispanic immigrants to participate in elections. ²²

Gold has also said that Hispanics are concerned about what the government will do with their voter registration information when it comes to immigration enforcement. ²³ She has said that incidents of non-eligible voters casting ballots or registering to vote are “extremely, extremely rare” ²⁴ and believes efforts to ascertain citizenship status records with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) should be done in a way that does not perpetuate what she calls a “myth of voter ineligibility.” ²⁵

Gold is also a member of the left-of-center National Task Force on Election Crises, ²⁶ sits on the board of directors of the National Institute on Money in Politics and the board of directors of Open Secrets, ²⁷ and chairs the Future of California Elections Board of Advisors. ^{28 29 30}

She has worked on governmental advisory commissions including the California State Help America Vote Act Plan Advisory Committee and the Los Angeles Municipal Elections Reform Commission. ^{31 32}

Conference Appearances

Rosalind Gold often speaks at conferences on issues relevant to her portfolio with NALEO Educational Fund. In a 2019 event sponsored by Represent.Us, Gold said that the US must “flip the paradigm and think about long-term sustaining of our democracy” when it comes to voting access. ³³ In 2017 she participated in a panel discussion to promote voter trust and confidence in elections that was hosted by the National Association of Secretaries of State (NASS) and facilitated by the left-of-center Democracy Fund. ³⁴

In 2016, Gold participated in the 13^th annual Immigration Law and Policy Conference, hosted by the immigration expansionist Migration Policy Institute, left-of-center Catholic Legal Immigration Network, and Georgetown University Law School. ³⁵ She has also appeared at an event sponsored by the Asian Pacific American Bar Association that addressed fighting “voter suppression,” influencing redistricting, and conducting the U.S. census. ³⁶

Personal Information

Rosalind Gold received a B.A. from Pomona College. She received a J.D. from Harvard University Law School in 1982. ³⁷ She resides in Los Angeles, California. ^{38 39}

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