Carolina Lopez

Executive Director, Partnership for Large Election Jurisdictions

Carolina Lopez is the Executive Director at the Partnership for Large Election Jurisdictions (PLEJ), a national, nonpartisan community of support, best practices, and peer-to-peer engagement among large election jurisdictions through virtual and in-person convenings throughout the year. The PLEJ Network is comprised of bipartisan chief election officials elected or appointed across the country.

Carolina has over two decades in election administration and building coalitions. She spent a decade administering elections in the largest county in Florida, where she optimized operations, transparency, and good governance. Thereafter as a democracy advocate, she leveraged stakeholder relationships and expertise across broad coalitions to guide legislative advocacy, shape clerk engagement and election protection programs, and strengthen national and in-state relationships. Given her unique insight on how elections are run in large jurisdictions and track-record in building strong relationships among national, state, and local coalitions, Carolina understands the pivotal role that PLEJ plays in connecting a through-line across states with peers from similarly sized jurisdictions. Carolina holds a BBA and an MBA in Business Administration from Florida International University.