In her 10 year software career, Monica worked in environmental, healthcare, security and mental health applications. She has also been a Lecturer in the Math Department at Northeastern University. Monica holds a BS in Mathematics with a minor in Physics from Northeastern University, a MS in Applied Mathematics from the University of Virginia and is published in the Journal of Elasticity. She enjoys yoga, gardening and spending time with her children.

David previously worked as a Data Analyst at CareDash, a healthcare directory site, and holds a BA in Mathematics and Theater from Amherst College. He loves singing, board games, running, and getting people excited about changing our world for the better.

Nathan was elected to the Town of Lunenburg, Massachusetts Planning Board and served from 2009 through 2015. His career in the software industry spanned 25 years and included engineering, design, and management roles. He holds a BA in Philosophy from Yale University.

Prior to her political organizing work, she had a career in project management and technical communications for IT and Operations Departments at companies such as Iron Mountain, EMMT (NRG) and Northwest Airlines. Celia holds a degree in Linguistics and Russia from Macalester College and studied Piano Pedagogy at the New England Conservatory of Music. In her spare time, she enjoys teaching classical piano, and fiber arts.

Sean holds a BA in Political Science from Kenyon College. He enjoys reading, games of all kinds, and falling down Wikipedia rabbit holes.

As DoSomething’s resident Job Czar and one of their beloved old people, she has brought her affinity for business books, baking, and inclusive workplace practices to the largest tech company exclusively for young people and social change.

Johannes has a J.D. and Certificate in Environmental and Natural Resource Law from Lewis & Clark Law School, and a B.A. in Environmental Studies with a Minor in Legal Studies from University of California, Santa Cruz. He previously practiced environmental law in California.

Having started her career with the Boston Consulting Group and then launching a spinoff of that firm, she later stepped away from formal consulting organizations, allowing her to partner closely with her clients in more creative and flexible ways. In addition, she has helped many non-profits pro bono with their strategic and operational challenges.

Susie was a community organizer before Barack Obama, and worked on several campaigns back in the day. A graduate of Brown University and Harvard Business School, she believes her clients have been the most valuable source of her education.

At VCMA, Billy organized the “200 Coffees” legislator education campaign, which resulted in 89/200 Massachusetts legislators sponsoring or co-sponsoring RCV legislation. He also gave talks to small audiences which signed up hundreds of supporters and raised thousands of dollars in small donations. Billy holds a BA from Westfield State University and an MAT from Salem State University.

As a composer, Scotty has scored films and commercials, including dozens of 48 Hour Films, winning Best Music and a premiere at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival. He studied jazz composition at Oberlin Conservatory, and received a Master’s degree from the MIT Media Lab, where he pioneered software that arranges film music based on emotion. Scotty worked as a music knowledge engineer at The Echo Nest, acquired by Spotify.

Mark's primary interests involve using content and storytelling to help different groups of people better understand one another.

Her reputation for building sustainable customer and team relationships while bridging the gap between marketing and sales organizations has fostered success for her customers and companies alike. During the early days of HubSpot, Jeanne helped the company land on the number two spot on the Inc. 500 list of fastest growing companies by generating 50,000 net new leads per month. She has held the CMO title at travel management software company, Lola.com, Ipswitch (now Progress), SmartBear, and Continuum (now ConnectWise) and other executive marketing positions at Symmetricom (now Microsemi) and MarketingSherpa. Most recently, she was CRO at custom sports apparel provider, SquadLocker.

Jeanne has served as an advisor at numerous companies. In addition to Rank the Vote, she is advising Below the Fold, USEFULL (formerly Coffee Cup Collective), and OneScreen.ai. Jeanne co-authored “Go Mobile,” a top-selling mobile marketing book on Amazon, in 2012. She loves educating the masses as a frequent speaker at industry events and is a social media powerhouse with 86,000 @jeannehopkins followers on Twitter and nearly 10,000 on LinkedIn.

Dan spent 8 years pursuing a career in stand-up comedy, appearing on Comedy Central and as a finalist in the Boston Comedy Festival.

He has also served in leadership roles on voter protection teams for campaigns and nonpartisan organizations. Nick holds a J.D. from the Northwestern University School of Law, where he was a member of the Law Review, and a B.A. from Emory University. He is admitted to practice law in New York.

She has worked in Washington State, Oregon, and California on campaigns to ban plastic bags, protect clean water and wild places, push for more and better public transportation, fight for access to reproductive healthcare including abortion, and register young people to vote. Tonina is a doula, providing emotional and physical support during pregnancy and childbirth, based in the Bay Area.

Prior to founding Vertex in 1989, Dr. Boger was Senior Director of Basic Chemistry at Merck, Sharp & Dohme Research Laboratories in Rahway, N.J., where he headed both the Departments of Biophysical Chemistry and Medicinal Chemistry of Immunology & Inflammation. During his ten years at Merck, Dr. Boger developed an international reputation in the application of computer modeling to the chemistry of drug design and was a pioneer in the use of structure-based rational drug design as the basis for drug discovery programs.

Dr. Boger was named in 2009 to the Biotech Hall of Fame, received in 2012 the Chemical Heritage Foundation & BIO 13th Annual Biotechnology Heritage Award, in 2018 received the Othmer Gold medal from the Science History Institute and a Doctor of Science honorary degree from Wesleyan University, in addition to numerous other professional awards.

Dr. Boger is Chair of the Board of the Celebrity Series (Boston’s premier performing arts presenter), co-founder and Vice-Chair of the Alliance for Business leadership (a Boston-based, non-partisan coalition of progressive business leaders) and Vice-Chair of the Museum of Science (Boston). He serves on several additional non-profit Boards, including the Board of Fellows of Harvard Medical School (where he is Chair Emeritus), the Science Advisory Council of WGBH (public broadcasting’s leading station, Boston), and the MIT Corporation Visiting Committees to the Institute for Medical Engineering & Science (IMES). He is a former member of the Harvard Board of Overseers, served on the boards of the Hastings Center for Bioethics and the Whitehead Institute (Cambridge, MA), was a founding Director of the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center, was a Trustee and Chair of the Board of Wesleyan University, was founding Chair of the Board of MassChallenge, and, while a member of the Board of the ACLU of Massachusetts Foundation, co-founded their ongoing Technology for Liberty and Justice for All Projects.

Dr. Boger holds a B.A. in Chemistry and Philosophy from Wesleyan University and an A.M. and Ph.D. in Chemistry from Harvard University.

He is Los-Angeles based, and an enthusiastic Connector who now focuses the majority of his energy and time on electoral reform.

Previously, Brian worked as a consultant with startups and high-growth companies.  While in law school, Brian studied election law and was on one of the winning teams in the 2011 state-wide redistricting competition. Brian is a double William and Mary graduate (2011 JD, 2004 BA).  He and his wife, Kelly, live in Richmond, Virginia with their two children.

His speciality is corporate strategy, cross-border transactions, and Federal constitutional matters. Prior to Troca Global Advisors, Beej was the President and CEO of Troca Hotels & Yachts, a boutique hotel company with multiple hospitality assets on two continents.

Prior to founding Troca Hotels, Beej was a senior member of the Hilton Worldwide development team where he was responsible for the development of its entire portfolio of brands on the Indian subcontinent. Prior to Beej's work for Hilton Worldwide, as a lawyer, Beej represented banks, developers, funds, REITs, and entrepreneurs in a wide variety of corporate, technology, development, finance and acquisition related transactions at the law firms of Latham & Watkins in New York and Choate, Hall & Stewart, Testa Hurwitz & Thibeault and Goulston & Storrs in Boston. Immediately after law school, he served as a law clerk for the Hon. Benson E. Legg, Judge for the United States District Court for the District of Maryland.

Fluent in English and Bengali, Beej has a B.A. in Political Science from Middlebury College in Vermont and a J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School in Ann Arbor.

Tara has worked with Ivy League educational institutions as well as a number of public and private universities in the New England area and has experience in fundraising and staffing operations for local, federal, candidate and issue-based campaigns. Tara has consulted with small businesses in the start-up tech and construction sectors assisting in developing and executing business strategies and navigating regulatory practices.

Tara holds a BA in Political Science – from the University of Massachusetts, Boston where she served as a University Trustee 2009-2010. She also received a certificate from Washington International Studies Program at Oxford University and has a Professional Grant Writing Certificate from the University of Massachusetts.

EveristHealth’s portfolio includes cardiovascular health products that inform people of their heart age and current state of their overall heart health. Most recently, EveristHealth developed the COVIDAge Risk Calculator™️ to bring awareness to individuals of their risks for COVID-19 complications should they become infected and to empower them to lower those risks through specific diet and lifestyle changes.

In addition to risk stratification, EveristHealth’s pandemic management tools are designed to assist public officials by providing geographically accurate outbreak and contact tracing data to manage response. The tools also optimize the vaccine distribution “last mile scheduling” problem to get the highest risk individuals vaccinated without lines or empty chairs.

Steve is a Stanford graduate with degrees in Product Design in 1997 and Bioinformatics in 1998. He has strong connections to the Silicon Valley intellectual and tech innovation scene, with roots going back to college and his early involvement in a Palo Alto startup that sold for $65 million to Microsoft. Steve’s interests include behavioral economics, machine intelligence, and the psychology and politics of empowering individuals. He is an avid proponent of transforming politics through invention, with a long running project under design and development to improve political culture by incentivizing integrity in political debate and discourse. His enthusiasm for ranked choice voting goes back many years and he is excited to be involved in the growing movement.

Steve and his family have been growing successful family businesses in South Dakota for generations and have been deeply engaged in public service through civic and political life. He currently resides in Colorado.

In his career as a software engineer and entrepreneur, under the brand Civera, Adam created the first searchable public database of official election statistics on behalf of the Secretary of Massachusetts and four other US states. Adam lives in Somerville, MA and holds a BA in History from Boston University.

Recently, Malea led fundraising efforts for Bernie Sanders’ 2020 Presidential Bid. As the Development Director, she brought traditional fundraising practices to compliment online giving. The fundraising program generated a record-breaking $200M for the 14-month presidential primary campaign.

Over the past 20+ years Malea has worked on numerous start-up teams and with established organizations. She has worked with state, congressional and presidential candidates developing strategies, finance operations and coalition building.

Malea served as Senior Director of Governance to the Board of Directors of the National Wildlife Federation for over 10 years. Organizing the 501(c)3, 501(c)4 and Endowment Boards- in policy and campaign engagement, funding and connecting to the organization’s 6 million members and 51 state and territorial affiliates. Malea also led NWFs Political Action Committee (PAC) and Super-PAC providing pivotal support on conservation issues.

Understanding the power of elections, Malea is passionate about youth engagement in the political process, supporting small business and communities and ending gun violence. She serves on the Minnesota YMCA Youth in Government Board of Directors and enjoys mentoring the next class of our future leaders.

Dr. Glickman is known for having invented the Glicko and Glicko-2 rating systems for head-to-head competition, both of which have been adopted by many gaming organizations internationally. Dr. Glickman has served as a member of the US Chess Ratings Committee since 1985, and has been the Chair of the Committee over most of that period. He co-founded and co-organizes the New England Symposium on Statistics in Sports, a bi-annual conference on the research and practice of applying statistical methods in sports. He is Associate Editor for the Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports and was Editor-in-Chief 2015-2017. At Harvard, he is the founding head of the Lab for Sports Analytics.

Prior to Juno, Bruce led various drug development teams in immunology and respiratory disease at Genentech. Bruce was a strategy consultant at McKinsey and Company and a Medical Officer with the US Navy and the State of California Department of Health Services.

Bruce received a BS in economics from the University of Pennsylvania, an MD from NYU School of Medicine and an MPH from UC Berkeley School of Public Health. Bruce became active in electoral politics following the 2016 election - developing financial and network support for several US House candidates in 2018. Following the 2018 election, Bruce has been actively involved with electoral reform and democracy promotion.

Appointed by Governor Deval Patrick, Avi has also served on the Massachusetts State Ballot Law Commission and the Local Election District Review Commission.

Previously, Ben served as Co-founder and National Political Director for American Promise, a national cross-partisan organization working to overturn Citizens United vs. FEC. Ben is a native of Colorado where he also graduated from Fort Lewis College.

Her widely acclaimed novel, Disturbance of the Inner Ear, won the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize for Fiction by an American Woman, and she’s been awarded fellowships at the American Academy Berlin, the Netherlands Institute for the Arts and Sciences, the MacDowell Colony, Ragdale, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Schloss Wiepersdorf. She has taught creative writing in Germany, the UK, and at multiple universities in the U.S., including George Washington University, where she was the Jenny McKean Moore Writer-in-Residence. Her novel-in-progress, Reconstruction, explores the ways that the suffrage and abolition movements collaborated and competed, supporting and undermining each other.

Hackett is the creator of several large public education projects, including Washington Write-a-Story Day. She's also the founder of Lift+Every+Vote, which offers average activists concrete opportunities to help protect our democracy's critical infrastructure. It's focused on the basics of voting: registration, and now has close to 1100 members in 21 states. Her mission is to leave behind universal suffrage.

He spent the first part of his career with large firms including Covington & Burling in D.C. and Wyche Burgess and then Nelson Mullins in South Carolina. Since 2004 when he started his own practice, he has achieved approximately $100 million in verdicts and settlements and has won the coveted Litigator Award given to the top 1% of lawyers, lawyers known for “bet the company” cases.

William is also deeply committed to public education and from 1998-2006 served on the Greenville County (SC) School Board. The district even then had over 70,000 students, 5,000 teachers, and budgets approaching half a billion dollars a year. During William’s tenure and substantially as a result of his leadership, the District entered into a unique public-private partnership that enabled the construction of over 70 schools in four years at a savings of over $1 billion, all without increasing taxes, giving the district facilities among the best in the nation. William has also served on the South Carolina Educational Television Commission [PBS] and the board of the South Carolina Children’s Theater.

William’s mantra is: “Decency matters. Treat people with respect and dignity, because integrity counts. Be a living example. Work like hell. Never give up. But don’t be afraid to have fun along the way.” In 2018, William was a candidate for the Republican nomination for South Carolina Attorney General on an anti-corruption platform.

At the NAACP, Segun managed the research and production of the Equity, Access, and Opportunity Report Card, a comprehensive, 175-page assessment of the city’s efforts and results in addressing systemic racial disparities.

In August 2014, Segun organized the Boston Police Camera Action Team (BPCAT) with his colleague, Shekia Scott. BPACT’s mission was to further accountability and safety in Boston through the mandatory use of police body-worn cameras. As a result of their efforts, Boston began a body-worn camera pilot program and policy in September 2016. In 2018, Boston Mayor Marty Walsh announced a $2 million investment in a permanent citywide body-worn camera program.

Following his graduation from Boston Latin Academy, Segun earned his Bachelor of Arts in History at Morehouse College.

He has written five books on energy industry economics and global trade. In addition, he has contributed 250 speeches, articles and webcasts to publications such as Oil and Gas Journal, Supply Chain Management Review, Energy Tribune, and Supply Chain Quarterly.

Formerly, he taught Operations Management at Boston University's graduate school of business, served as a contributing editor at the Economist Intelligence Unit, and consulted to the World Bank. While based in Brazil, Hong Kong and France, he consulted on strategic sourcing, purchasing and outsourcing, shipping, and capital investments.

He holds an MBA from the Wharton School, a Masters in International Business from The Lauder Institute, a Bachelor of Science in Finance and Economics from the University of Pennsylvania, and several industry certifications. At the International Supply Chain Education Alliance (ISCEA), he is a member of its Ptak Prize Selection Committee. Mr. Jacoby is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers.

Since launching in 2017, Election Reformers Network has provided financial and strategic support to initiatives such as ranked choice voting in Maine and Massachusetts, redistricting reform in Missouri and Utah, and secretary of state reform in New Mexico. Mr. Johnson co-authored Guardrails for the Guardians, focused on secretary of state partisanship, along with more than 20 opinion pieces on a wide range of reform topics.

He served on the Board of Common Cause Massachusetts from 2008 to 2018, where he was active in campaigns to improve redistricting, reduce money in elections, and support a national popular vote for president. Mr. Johnson’s interest in elections stems initially from several years spent directing democratization programs overseas for the National Democratic Institute. Mr. Johnson has an MBA from Wharton and a BA in English from Yale University.

Scott is a Bioinformatics Scientist at Moderna Therapeutics where he analyzes next generation sequencing data. Scott holds a PhD in Biological Sciences from Columbia University and M.M.Sc. from Harvard Medical School. He enjoys running and cycling and is an accomplished triathlete.

Prior to joining Pickwick, Ms. Kemp was the CEO at Arcova Technologies, Inc., a consumer focused predictive analytics company. She is a recognized economic development expert and co-developer of a Gross State Product (GSP) analytics tool for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Earlier in her career, Ms. Kemp served as the Assistant Secretary of Economic Affairs for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

She was a long-time member and vice-chair of the board of Common Cause Massachusetts, focusing her efforts on open and accountable government, redistricting reform, and election modernization. She currently serves on the leadership team of Progressive Democrats of Massachusetts, focusing on endorsements of candidates to state legislative offices and on criminal justice reform. She is a member of the new Berkshire (MA) chapter of the League of Women Voters.

An immigrant from Morocco and a survivor, Ihssane devoted her life to public service. She worked to eliminate food deserts, save states and municipalities from bankruptcy, and battled the biggest, most corrupt wall street players as Wall Street regulator at the Federal Reserve, where she led federal inter-agency task forces to protect working families from national and global threats to our economy.

Ihssane is currently organizing to elect working class women of color into public office, and serving as Honorary Co-Chair of the Massachusetts’ Yes-on-2 campaign for Ranked Choice Voting.

In 2020, and in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Natalia ran for Congress to represent Massachusetts fourth Congressional district. She is currently a Town Meeting Member in Brookline and serves on the Board of the Environmental League of Massachusetts.

Prior to her role at Harvard, Natalia worked at the United Nations for a decade leading UNDP’s work at the nexus of health and environment, and served as a speechwriter and policy specialist at the United Nations in New York and in Beirut, Lebanon. She also worked at the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene as science advisor to the Commissioner.

Natalia is a graduate of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, where she earned her Doctor of Science in social epidemiology, and of Harvard College, where she earned her Bachelors in Anthropology. She is married and has three young children.

Maskin has worked in diverse areas of economic theory, such as game theory, the economics of incentives, and contract theory. His current research projects include comparing different electoral rules, examining the causes of inequality, and studying coalition formation. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Econometric Society, and the European Economic Association, and a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy. He was president of the Econometric Society in 2003.

Nadeem has been fortunate to educate and train students, leaders, and entrepreneurs from every background over the past 15 years. Nadeem has served as faculty and Director of Innovation at School of the Museum of Fine Arts, an instructor at the Martin Trust Center for Entrepreneurship at MIT Sloan, a Varsity Head Coach at MIT, and a full time elected City Councillor in Cambridge, the home of Harvard and MIT. Nadeem is an Andover native, and went on to graduate from Phillips Academy and MIT. Nadeem is a serial entrepreneur, having founded successful businesses in education, high-tech job training, software, and media.

She began her career at Amnesty International USA in its Boston and New York offices, and went on to work at the U.N. Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and later for the Vice President of the U.N. Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, as an Associate Legal Officer. She successfully oversaw the implementation of democracy and governance programs, including elections-related missions, as the Deputy Director for Southern and East Africa at the National Democratic Institute.

Mercedeh has been a litigator for more than 20 years. As a New Jersey Deputy Attorney General, an Assistant United States Attorney and Senior Litigation Counsel at the U.S. Department of Justice, she litigated approximately two hundred cases on wide-range of issues, including the enforcement of the False Claims Act. More recently, as a managing attorney at other government agencies, she has focused on combating fraud, waste and abuse.

Mercedeh’s pro bono work includes leading advocacy and rule of law workshops for women lawyers and activists in East and West Africa as well as the Near East, and advising various women’s rights groups at home and abroad, as a board member. She has investigated allegations of atrocities committed in Darfur, Sudan, and represented the U.S. Department of State at the International Criminal Court Review conference in 2010. Mercedeh is the author of several rights-related articles and a book chapter. Mercedeh is a graduate of Howard University School of Law and lives with her husband and daughter in Vienna, VA, USA.

It led the Washington Post to dub him an “intellectual guru of tort reform.” His books since then have stirred discussion on topics ranging from workplace law to mass litigation to the state of the law schools. He is known as founder and principal writer of the longest‐​running blog on law, Overlawyered, which ran from 1999 to 2020.

He has advised many public officials from town councils to the White House and is active in civic affairs in his home state of Maryland, having been named by Gov. Larry Hogan as co‐​chair of commissions aimed at ending the practice of gerrymandering. He is often interviewed for his expertise on elections and redistricting law.

Professionally, John is co-founder and Principal of Hanover Partners, a San Francisco private equity firm that has been active investing in small middle-market manufacturing companies in the U.S. since 1994. John serves or has served as a director on the board of twelve of Hanover’s portfolio companies, including serving as Chairman for five companies.

John is a long-time electoral reform advocate supportive of a more level playing field for electing independent and third-party candidates. John and his wife Mary were significant financial supporters of The Committee for Ranked Choice Voting, the Maine-based organization that led the passage of the first statewide use of this instant-runoff system. They live in San Francisco with three children, and they spend significant time in Maine during the summer. John actively volunteers locally including periodically serving on nonprofit boards.

Active on social media with a significant following (for the democracy reform universe), John’s Twitter effort can be found at @ElectBetterUSA. John has written several articles on the topic of electoral reform for the Independent Voter Network.

While on Active Duty, Bobbie served principally as a Cavalry Officer and Paratrooper, but transitioned to the Army Reserve as a Civil Affairs officer in 2018. Since leaving Active Duty, Bobbie has devoted his full efforts to development and consulting on a wide variety of operations, including security, negotiations, real estate, public policy, and political campaigns. In 2009, he founded Ragsdale Holdings, LCC, through which he acquired over twelve years of real estate development and investment experience.

Bobbie graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 2007 with a BS in American Politics w/ Thesis, and a Systems Engineering Track. He was later selected by the Army to pursue a postgraduate degree, graduating from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government with a Master in Public Administration in 2016. He has additionally studied System Dynamics at MIT and Constitutional Law at Harvard Law School. He serves on the boards of the Fisher House of Louisiana, The NOLA Gold Rugby Foundation, Global Leadership University, The Harvard Club of Louisiana, and the Isidore Newman Alumni Board, and is the President of the West Point Class of 2007. He resides in Metairie, Louisiana, a suburb of New Orleans with his wife, Meghan, and four children.

When her efforts to reform the election system and end cannabis prohibition failed in the Legislature, Diane led a bipartisan coalition of advocates and leaders to take both Ranked Choice Voting and marijuana legalization to ballot in 2016 - and win.

During the last presidential cycle, Diane led the national fight to reform the Superdelegate system within the Democratic Party, succeeding in reducing the number by ⅔ and binding remaining superdelegates to the popular vote of their state. Her speech at the DNC — hailed as a “coming out speech” — earned her 4th place in Politico’s 11 top quotes of the day. 

Diane has been published in the New York Times, Roll Call, The Boston Globe, The Hill blog, and she is a blogger in the Huffington Post. Additionally, she has been widely quoted in High Times, The Hill, The Huffington Post, The Intercept, The Nation, Politico, and the Washington Post, even making the cover of Reddit and doing two wildly successful AMA’s.

Voatz has also conducted elections with state/county governments, towns, cities, universities, professional organizations including the country’s first mobile voting project with the State of West Virginia in 2018.

Nimit is a winner of multiple coding/security hackathon competitions including the SXSW ‘Hack to the Future’ Hackathon in 2014 and the Vantiv Challenge at the Money2020 Hackathon in 2016. Nimit’s background is in mobile security and software development, previously serving as Director of R&D at Oberthur Technologies (now IDEMIA), and prior to that, as Director of R&D at MoreMagic Solutions.

Nimit holds a graduate degree from Carnegie Mellon University in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering and Business Management and is an alumnus of the Harvard Business School’s YALP (Young American Leaders Program) Class of 2019. In his spare time, Nimit actively participates in the development of security tools to help detect and prevent human trafficking.

Professor Shiller is a New York Times bestselling author who has written on financial markets, financial innovation, behavioral economics, macroeconomics, real estate, statistical methods, and on public attitudes, opinions, and moral judgments regarding markets. His many books include Irrational Exuberance, an analysis and explication of speculative bubbles, with special reference to the stock market and real estate, and most recently in 2019, Narrative Economics, “an account of how stories help drive economic events—and why financial panics can spread like epidemic viruses”.

He was co-founder of Case Shiller Weiss, Inc. in 1991, whose repeat-sales home price indices, developed originally with Karl E. Case, are now produced by CoreLogic and published as the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices. The Chicago Mercantile Exchange now maintains futures markets based on the S&P/Case-Shiller Indices. He was cofounder of MacroMarkets, LLC in 1999, which launched Macroshares based on oil at the American Stock Exchange 2006-9, and on the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices at the New York Stock Exchange 2009-2010.

Professor Shiller has been research associate, National Bureau of Economic Research since 1980, and has been co-organizer of NBER workshops: on behavioral finance with Richard Thaler 1991-2015, and on macroeconomics and individual decision making (behavioral macroeconomics) with George Akerlof 1994-2007. 

He writes a regular column "Finance in the 21st Century" for Project Syndicate, which publishes around the world, and "Economic View for The New York Times.

Sam’s distinct model of serving and informing Fitchburg and surrounding areas, incorporating front-line volunteering and advocacy, rich multi-channel media, and continuous constituent service and accessibility, has achieved remarkable results fostering civic engagement and pride, and produced tangible improvements to the city that residents now enjoy.

Sam has been on the ground leading local initiatives such as the creation of the new Fitchburg dog park, keeping Fitchburg’s roads and parks clean with weekly organized cleanups, city wide yard sales, and initiatives with the Fitchburg Greenway Committee. Sam was appointed by Governor Baker to the Massachusetts Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Board, is President of the 501c3 Fitchburg Friends of DOGS, Inc., a board member of the Longsjo Classic / Art Longsjo Foundation, Fitchburg Pride, and the newly formed Friends of Fitchburg Abolitionist Park.

Professionally, Sam is an Architectural Building Engineer & Project Manager with a LEED AP in Building Design and Construction who for over 20 years has worked on large Commercial & Industrial building design & construction projects to local commercial renovations.

He is also the co-chair of the High-Level Expert Group on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress at the OECD, and the Chief Economist of the Roosevelt Institute.

In 2000, Stiglitz founded the Initiative for Policy Dialogue, a think tank on international development based at Columbia University. He has been a member of the Columbia faculty since 2001 and received that university's highest academic rank (university professor) in 2003. In 2011 Stiglitz was named by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world. Known for his pioneering work on asymmetric information, Stiglitz's work focuses on income distribution, risk, corporate governance, public policy, macroeconomics and globalization. He is the author of numerous books, and several bestsellers. His most recent titles are People, Power, and Profits, Rewriting the Rules of the European Economy, Globalization and Its Discontents Revisited, The Euro and Rewriting the Rules of the American Economy.

Before joining New America, Maresa cut her teeth in the US politics space as a long-time staff writer on the State Desk at Ballotpedia. She's lived in Italy and the UK, where she completed her graduate studies and, most recently, worked as an editor for a London media company. Maresa has written for outlets such as Vox, Washington Monthly, Democracy Journal, and Inside Philanthropy. She holds an MS in international relations from the University of Surrey and a BS in economics from the University of Pittsburgh.

Summers’ tenure at the U.S. Treasury coincided with the longest period of sustained economic growth in U.S. history. Currently, Dr. Summers is the President Emeritus and the Charles W. Eliot University Professor at Harvard University, where he became a full professor at age 28. He directs the University’s Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government. Summers was the first social scientist to receive the National Science Foundation’s Alan Waterman Award for scientific achievement and, in 1993, he was awarded the John Bates Clark Medal, given to the most outstanding economist under 40 in the United States. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2002. He has published more than 150 papers in scholarly journals.

Summers is an advisor to businesses and investors. He is a distinguished senior fellow at the Center for American Progress and co-chaired the Commission on Inclusive Prosperity. He recently launched a Task Force on Fiscal Policy with Mayor Bloomberg and chaired the Commission on Global Health, lauded by the UN Secretary General who noted that it “will bring more than health – it will bring equity, and contribute to a life of dignity for all.” Summers has been recognized as one of the world’s most influential thinkers by publications such as Time, Foreign Policy, Prospect and The Economist.

Prior to EVERFI, Claire founded and lead growth and strategy for a range of social platforms in Silicon Valley product studios. Claire serves as an advisor for multiple organizations in the technology, film & arts space, as well as the Vinetta Project where she advises, evaluates, and invests in female-founded companies.

Reverend Walker was born and raised on the west side of Philadelphia. Rev. Walker attended Penn State University for college where he earned a Bachelor’s of Science degree with a major in Organizational Leadership and a minor in Psychology in 2012.

During his time in college, Rev. Walker was also elected to become the President of the Abington Christian Fellowship at Penn State Abington’s campus, which is the campus Christian Organization.

After graduating from Penn State University, Rev. Walker attended Boston University's School of Theology and earned a Master's Degree in Theological Studies (M.T.S.) in 2016. During this time, Rev. Walker also crossed-registered to take courses at Harvard University' Divinity School on non-profit leadership. Rev. Walker also took classes at the School of Social Work at Boston University that focused on social justice and macro social work practices.

During his graduate studies at Boston University, Rev. Walker had the opportunity intern at Mass Alliance of HUD Tenants, where he helped the organization preserve and improve at-risk HUD buildings as permanently affordable housing with a maximum of resident participation, ownership and control.

Rev. Walker also interned at the Massachusetts Communities Action Network, where he had an opportunity to engage more deeply in racial and economic justice work. For the last several years, Rev. Walker has been affiliated with the Berachah Church located in Dorchester where he helped to develop the social action and outreach department.

Rev. Walker supports Ranked Choice Voting (RCV) and believes that this reform is needed to empower voters and increase voter participation in local, state, and federal elections.

He ranks in the top 5% of published economists by citations, and his co-authored paper “Credit Rationing in Markets with Imperfect Information” with Joseph Stiglitz was prominently featured in the Nobel Prize committee statement for Stiglitz’s 2001 Nobel Prize Award.

After receiving his PhD from Stanford, Weiss began his career at Columbia University and as a Research Economist in the Mathematics Center at Bell Laboratories, concurrently. He was elected a fellow of the Econometric Society in 1989.

Weiss is the founder and CEO of Weiss Asset Management (“WAM”). He and WAM’s strategies have been featured in articles in Forbes, Time, and Outstanding Investor Digest, as well as newspaper articles in the U.S. and Europe.

Weiss serves on the Advisory Boards of the University of California Center for Effective Global Action, Last Mile Health, the University for Global Health Equity (Rwanda). He is a senior fellow at the Niskanen Center and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Weiss co-founded Child Relief International, a foundation dedicated to fighting poverty in less developed countries. The Weiss Family Fund supports research in development economics at ten leading universities.

A graduate of Harvard Law School (where he served as editor-in-chief of the Harvard Journal of Law and Technology) and of the University of Chicago (where he worked with Freakonomics author Steve Levitt), Mike previously served as a law clerk on the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. He also worked as a management consultant for Fortune 500 firms across a wide variety of industries, and is currently a member of the Board of Trustees of The Waring School.

Jen has served both major parties at the highest levels around policy research, development, communication, and oversight. Working as a nonpartisan career civil servant for the Trump White House in the Office of Management and Budget, her work included making annual apportionments of over a billion dollars and managing budget accounts of several agencies. In Congress as Professional Staff for the Democratic controlled U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Ways and Means Majority, Jen wrote legislation, advised the Chairman and Congresspeople, and provided messaging research and support. As a policy lead at the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation she designed and tested major healthcare reforms.

Outside of the federal government, Jen has spearheaded policy and advocacy efforts for a global anti-violence and social justice nonprofit and served the United Nations in East Africa, where she worked to reach the UN Millennium Development Goals and address gender-based violence for the UN Refugee Agency.

Jen’s convictions about the benefits of ranked choice voting come from close personal experience -- she ran for office and won in RCV elections at her alma mater, Harvard University, where she was elected Class President and part of only the third all-female student body presidential team in the school’s history. In her free time, Jen organizes hundreds of young changemakers in anti-violence and pro-democratic efforts at the local, state, national, and global level.