Tianna Mays

Tianna Mays is a legal director at the Program for Defenders of Democracy, where she advocates for immigrant rights and the protection of constitutional guarantees regarding birthright citizenship in the United States. Recently, she has been in the news for her commentary on the implications of a Supreme Court decision that could alter the long-standing principle of jus soli, which grants citizenship to individuals born in the U.S. regardless of their parents' immigration status.