Voting Rights Act

Reflections with League of Women Voters

Learn all about the years-long fight to secure voting rights for all Americans in this talkback session with Karen Nelson and members of the League of Women Voters Milwaukee County.

Learn all about the years-long fight to secure voting rights for all Americans in this talkback session with Karen Nelson and members of the League of Women Voters Milwaukee County. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was a turning point in U.S. history; legislation born from determination, protest, and the demand for justice. It outlawed discriminatory voting practices that kept generations of Black and brown Americans from the ballot box.

Karen Nelson is Co Founder of NelStar Enterprises LLC with her husband Stanford Nelson. She serves as the CIEO, Chief Inclusion & Equity Officer. Most recently she served as the first African-American Vice President reporting to the President of Herzing University. Previously, she served as the Inaugural Diversity leader at Rogers Behavioral Health, the 7th at the City of Appleton, 1st at Shaw Industries, and the 1st Corporate Diversity Manager for GE Healthcare in Waukesha for all of the United States, Latin America and Canada. Named one of Wisconsin's Top 35 Black Leaders, she serves on Wisconsin's Governor's State Council on Affirmative Action, the League of Women Voters Milwaukee County Board of Directors where she serves as the DEI Committee Co-Chair and a member of the State Board's Impartial Justice Committee (IJC). She holds a chemistry degree from Bennett College, an HBCU and an Executive MBA from UW-Milwaukee.  

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