Task Force Members
- December 1, 2019
Jim Baker
Former FBI General Counsel
David Becker
Executive Director and Founder, Center for Election Innovation and Research
Rajiv Chandrasekaran
The Emes Project; Former Associate Editor,
The Washington Post
Christine Chen
Executive Director, Asian and Pacific Islander American Vote (APIAVote)
Meryl Chertoff
Executive Director, Georgetown Project on State & Local Government Law and Policy, and Adjunct Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center
Michael Chertoff
Former U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security
Tom Coleman
Former Member of Congress (R-MO)
Avery Davis-Roberts
Associate Director, Democracy Program, The Carter Center
Tiana Epps-Johnson
Executive Director, Center for Tech and Civic Life
Edward B. Foley
Professor of Law, Ohio State University
Hannah Fried
Campaign Director, All Voting is Local, The Leadership Conference Education Fund
Larry Garber
Board Member, Election Reformers Network; Former US Agency for International Development
Dipayan Ghosh
Co-Director, Digital Platforms & Democracy Project, Harvard Kennedy School
Elizabeth Goitein
Co-Director, Liberty and National Security Program, Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law
Rosalind Gold
Chief Public Policy Officer, National Association of Latino Elected Officials (NALEO) Educational Fund
Trey Grayson
Former Secretary of State of Kentucky; Former President of National Association of Secretaries of State
Rebecca Green
Professor of Practice, William & Mary Law School
Yasmin Green
Director R&D, Jigsaw (Google)
Sam Hirsch
Partner, Jenner & Block LLP
Sherrilyn Ifill
President and Director-Counsel Emeritus,
NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF)
Karen Hobert Flynn
President, Common Cause and the Common Cause Education Fund
Virginia Kase Solomon
CEO, League of Women Voters of the United States
Rachel Kleinfeld
Senior Fellow, Democracy, Conflict, and Governance Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
MarÃa Teresa Kumar
President and CEO, Voto Latino Foundation
Megan Lewis
Co-Founder and Executive Director, Voting Rights Lab
Ryan Macias
Former Acting Director of Testing and Certification, U.S. Election Assistance Commission
Matthew Masterson
Former Senior Cybersecurity Advisor, CISA
Mary B. McCord
Legal Director and Visiting Professor, Georgetown Law’s Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection
Meredith McGehee
Principal, McGehee Strategies
Amber McReynolds
CEO, National Vote at Home Institute
Terry Ao Minnis
Senior Director of Census and Voting Programs, Asian Americans Advancing Justice (AAJC)
Michael T. Morley
Professor of Law, Florida State University College of Law
Jennifer Morrell
Partner, Elections Group
Janai Nelson
President and Director-Counsel,
NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF)
Lawrence Norden
Director, Election Reform Program, Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law
Adav Noti
Senior Director for Trial Litigation & Chief of Staff,
Campaign Legal Center
Norman Ornstein
Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute
Michael Osterholm
Director, Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy, University of Minnesota
Tammy Patrick
Senior Advisor, Elections, Democracy Fund
Trevor Potter
President, Campaign Legal Center
Ethan Rome
Chief of Strategy and Programs, Issue One
Ezra Rosenberg
Co-Director of Voting Rights Project, Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law
Paul Rosenzweig
Principal, Red Branch Consulting; Former DHS Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy
Thomas Saenz
President and General Counsel, MALDEF (Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund)
Hector Sanchez Barba
CEO and Executive Director, Mi Familia Vota
Kate Shaw
Professor of Law, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
Theodore M. (Ted) Shaw
Julius L. Chambers Distinguished Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Civil Rights, UNC School of Law
Pamela Smith
Senior Advisor, Verified Voting
Paul Smith
Vice President for Litigation and Strategy,
Campaign Legal Center
Michael Steele
Chair, U.S. Vote Foundation; Former Chair, Republican National Committee
Matthew Weil
Director, Elections Project at the Bipartisan Policy Center
Wendy Weiser
Vice President and Director, Democracy Program, Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law
Robert Weissman
President, Public Citizen
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