Draw the Line Podcast Premieres with Episode on Voting Rights in Louisiana

Design Observer has launched a new podcast series titled "Draw the Line," hosted by editor-in-chief Ellen McGirt. The premiere episode, "The lines we draw," follows McGirt to Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where she meets organizers, legal experts, and citizens fighting against gerrymandering. The episode documents a March morning rally at the State Capitol defending voting rights, and examines the Supreme Court ruling in Louisiana v. Callais, which weakened the Voting Rights Act by declaring the court's own remedy for racial discrimination unconstitutional. The series explores how district lines function as design decisions that determine political power. McGirt, an award-winning business journalist and former Fortune, Time, Money, and Fast Company writer, established Fortune's inclusive leadership beat raceAhead in 2016. Design Observer, founded over two decades ago, aims to expand the definition of design for a better world.