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Professor of Government and Politics Director of the Center for Democracy and Civic Engagement Co-PI Maryland Democracy Initiative University of Maryland
Long-time political practitioner turned academic. Interest groups and political behavior. And dogs.
Chief of Staff at DC Action.
Professor, Department of Government and Politics Director, Center for Democracy and Civic Engagement University of Maryland
City Clerk & Director of Communications & Legislative Services for the City of Hyattsville, MD.
Jahnavi is the President and Founder of New Voters and a Senior Fellow at the University of Maryland Center for Democracy and Civic Engagement. She graduated from Harvard College in 2023, concentrating in Government with a secondary in Music.
Brandon is the Associate Director of Campaigns at Generation Citizen, where he leads the Vote16USA initiative.
UCLA professor who does research on youth civic engagement.
Caitlin is a freelance creative marketer and graphic designer. She often works for non-profits and is passionate about activism and social change campaigning.
Researcher at Chinese for Affirmative Action. Interested in evaluating the impacts of immigrant voting, narrative change and message testing, and intersectional suffrage movements.
The New Voters Research Network (NVRN) brings together academics, youth-serving organizations and high school students to systematically develop empirically-supported methods of high school voter registration.