Ankit Jain is an American voting rights attorney who is the United States shadow senator from the District of Columbia.
Elected in 2024, he previously worked as an attorney and served as a member on the Ward 2 Advisory Neighborhood Commission.
[2] Jain grew up in Fairfax County, Virginia, to parents who immigrated from India.
[3] He worked as an Attorney for the Sierra Club and organized March for Our Lives events while in college.
[3][4] Jain worked as an attorney for the Sierra Club for four years, working as one of the lead negotiators in securing a settlement that committed the federal government to spending over $1 billion rectifying environmental harm caused by Trump's border wall.