Who We Are

Pamela Smith, the President & CEO of Verified Voting, plays a national leadership role in safeguarding elections, advocating for secure and fair voting processes, and building working alliances between advocates, election officials, and other stakeholders. First joining the organization in 2004, Smith has been a nationally-recognized expert on election security and administration for nearly 20 years. She leads the organization’s strategic priorities, advises election officials and voting rights partners in their work, and advocates for secure and fair election practices that enfranchise voters.

Smith’s work focuses on making voting systems resilient, championing post-election audits, speaking to the public about trustworthy elections, and fulfilling Verified Voting’s dedication to supporting election officials on the ground. She is a member of the National Task Force on Election Crises, a diverse cross-partisan group of more than 50 experts whose mission is to prevent and mitigate a range of election crises by calling for critical preventative reforms to our election systems. Smith has provided information and public testimony on election security issues at federal and state levels throughout the U.S. She authors, contributes to, and speaks on matters relating to election security, election administration, disinformation, and voting technology. She is frequently featured in media outlets across the country, including The Washington Post, The New York Times, Politico, Wired, Reuters, and NPR.

Prior to her work in elections, Smith was a nonprofit executive for a Hispanic educational organization working on first language literacy and adult learning, and a small business and marketing consultant.

 

Mariska van Delft supports Verified Voting as Operations and HR Director. She brings operational, human resources, and compliance expertise, and a keen eye for administrative improvements and policies. Prior to joining Verified Voting, she served on the FairVote operations team for two years, where she was key to successfully implementing a number of new systems and processes. A Dutch criminal defense and human rights lawyer by trade, Mariska practiced law in Amsterdam and worked with the defense at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia. She served as a human rights officer with the EU Rule of Law mission in Kosovo, before taking on her first operational role as operations director with a small non-profit focussed on supporting refugees and asylum seekers in Greece. Mariska has a dual masters degree in criminal law and international/European law from the University of Leiden, the Netherlands.

Saige Draeger is Verified Voting’s Senior Policy Associate, responsible for tracking legislation and rulemaking across the United States related to security and verifiability in elections. She leads the organization’s state work in Colorado, Nevada, and Michigan. Before joining Verified Voting, Saige worked at the National Conference of State Legislatures as a policy specialist, providing nonpartisan research and technical assistance to state legislators nationwide working on election policy. Outside of work, she enjoys running, painting, a good book, and hanging out with her gray tuxedo cat, Frank. Email Saige.

Corrie Emerson manages Verified Voting’s comprehensive education and outreach strategy with a focus on reaching voters with Verified Voting’s trusted, nonpartisan information about election administration. She partners with voting rights organizations—including the Election Protection coalition—to craft a unified message about what makes our elections resilient. Corrie has several years of experience in public relations, message development, strategic communications, and government affairs. Corrie was previously the Public Affairs Manager for her Pennsylvania county, serving its three elected county commissioners and 820,000 residents. In that role, she worked closely with her elections office on voter education and outreach, including hosting town halls and events for voters. Previously, Corrie was the staff coordinator at Shorr Johnson Magnus Strategic Media, a nationally-recognized media consulting firm. Corrie is a graduate of Temple University with a B.B.A. in Economics and Political Science. When she isn’t thinking about election security messaging, she’s usually cooking, doing yoga, going for a hike with her dog, or spending time with her family.

As Senior Policy Associate, Jessica King engages with states to implement and promote best practices that support public confidence in elections including robust tabulation audits, ballot accounting, and chain-of-custody documentation. With a decade of elections administration experience at the county level, she is uniquely qualified to collaborate with election officials as they put into practice tools that provide transparency in the electoral process and enhance voter trust in election outcomes. Prior to joining Verified Voting, Jessica served the voters of Cuyahoga County in Ohio for ten years, overseeing Vote-by-Mail and ballot preparation and tabulation for the county’s nearly 900,000 voters. Jessica received both her Bachelor of Science in Journalism and her Master of Arts in Communication Studies from Bowling Green State University. When she is away from work, she loves live music, traveling, and enjoying the outdoors with her Australian Cattle Dog, Cecilia.

Chrissa LaPorte is Verified Voting’s Deputy Policy & Strategy Director. She works with state and local officials to pilot and implement rigorous post-election audits. She brings more than 10 years of nonprofit experience to her role at Verified Voting. For many years, she oversaw the policy initiatives of the French-American Foundation, an organization dedicated to promoting French-American relations and an exchange of best practices among policymakers and professionals from a range of industries. Notably, she spearheaded an annual cybersecurity conference for senior government officials, leading academics, and private sector security experts. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Brown University and is also a graduate of Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. Outside of work, she’s happiest in her garden or reading a book.

Brittany Ledford is a Certified Salesforce Administrator with extensive experience working with nonprofits to improve accurate reporting and data hygiene. Brittany graduated from North Carolina State University and lives just outside Chapel Hill, North Carolina with her family. When not working, Brittany enjoys cheering her children on at sporting events, baking bread, fostering rescue dogs, and camping.

Mark Lindeman is Policy & Strategy Director at Verified Voting and has been working to make elections more secure and verifiable for over a decade. Widely known and respected in the elections community, Mark worked on risk-limiting audits (RLAs) before they had a name and advises legislators, election officials, and other decision makers on audit methods. Mark has helped with RLA rulemaking and implementation in Georgia, Pennsylvania, California, Colorado, Rhode Island, and other states. He has co-authored several papers on RLAs including “A Gentle Introduction to Risk-Limiting Audits” and served as executive editor on the white paper “Risk-Limiting Audits: Why and How.” Mark has also served on the Coordinating Committee of the Election Verification Network since 2010. Mark has a Ph.D. in political science from Columbia University. He has frequently taught undergraduate and graduate courses in quantitative methods, public opinion, and various topics in American politics. He serves on the boards of several non profit organizations including Hudsonia, an environmental research institute, and Rising Hope, a prison education program. In his free time, he is a choral singer and hiker.

As Deputy Director of Research & Partnerships, Megan Maier builds relationships with partner organizations, election administrators, and other stakeholders. She represents Verified Voting on the Election Protection steering committee and organizes the preparation for and rapid response to election equipment issues that could prevent voters from voting. Megan creates and shares data-rich resources with partners, journalists, and researchers to support their work. Megan’s dedication to advocating for practices that enfranchise voters from historically marginalized communities originated in her studies at the Northwestern School of Law at Lewis & Clark College. Her research has been published in the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Law and Social Change and the DePaul Journal of Women, Gender and the Law. She is a cat lover, avid Nordic skier, and mountain biker.

As Digital Communications Associate, Sunčana Pavlić works with the communications team to achieve Verified Voting’s mission and goals through graphic design, multimedia creation, and visual storytelling. Sunčana has several years of experience in digital design, developing advanced Adobe Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop, and photography skills. In her previous role as a Marketing Specialist for the Wisconsin Department of Veteran Affairs and Communications Intern at the Economic Development Association at the University of Wisconsin – Madison Extension, she created promotional materials for events, illustrated designs for digital and print, took event photos, and made several report designs. She also helped update and manage the website using WordPress. She also taught other interns and supervisors how to use Adobe Suite and other design tools when creating print or digital content. Sunčana is a University of Wisconsin – Madison graduate with a B.S. in Journalism and Mass Communications and Afro-American studies. She is working on her Professional Masters’s degree at the University of Wisconsin – Madison.

Edward Piou is an independent consultant who handles the technical aspects of Verified Voting’s online presence. Since 2005 he has managed, and maintained the security of, the organization’s web, database, and email services. He is responsible for integrating new data and features into the Verified Voting website, and managing data and coding on a variety of technical projects. Edward graduated with a B.S. in VTSS (Values, Technology, Science, and Society) from Stanford University. Since then, he has helped newspapers, national foundations, non-profits, and small businesses to increase their impact with technology.

Michael Raimondi is proud to serve as the Senior Finance & Accounting Associate with Verified Voting where he supplies the organization with expert guidance and support regarding financial reporting, budgeting, accounting, payroll, and compliance. Michael is a Wealth Manager and the Director of Operations at Clarus Group, LLC, where he provides financial planning and investment advisory services for Creative Professionals, as well as members of the LGBTQIA+ community, among others. Michael earned his BFA from Chapman University, his MFA from The New School, and the esteemed CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ professional designation after having received his Certificate in Financial Planning from New York University. Michael is an Adjunct Professor at PACE University’s Lubin School of Business where he teaches as part of the Arts & Entertainment Management MS/MBA program. He is is originally from Southern California and now lives in New York City where he enjoys the theatre, cinema, reading, walking his dog in the park, and proudly serves on the Board of TMI Project.

As Verified Voting’s Grant Manager, Susanna Rodriguez is proud to support the vital work of the program team by working closely with the organization’s supporters, community partners, and funding organizations. Susanna has worked in the nonprofit sector for over 18 years, primarily in social justice-oriented nonprofits in the San Francisco Bay Area, with experience ranging from direct service and program management at a drop in center for families in housing crisis, to coordinating fundraising, events, and technology solutions at a college access and success program for low income, first generation students. Susanna holds a BA in English Literature with a Minor in Psychology from the University of British Columbia, and a MA in Consciousness and Transformative Studies from John F. Kennedy University. In her spare time Susanna enjoys spending time with her family in nature.

Lamontae Shively is Verified Voting’s Research & Outreach Associate and is responsible for keeping the organization’s tools and data up-to-date.  Prior to joining Verified Voting, Lamonte worked at his county’s elections office, helping in various capacities to support voters and the election department. Previously, he worked in the county clerk’s office and studied Information Communications Technology at the University of Kentucky. Lamontae resides in Kentucky and loves to cook and study history in his spare time.

Warren Stewart is Verified Voting’s Senior Editor & Data Specialist. He manages the Verifier – the most comprehensive dataset of voting equipment in the U.S. – and the popular Voting Equipment Database. He also serves as editor for The Voting News Daily. He previously served as Policy Director for VoteTrustUSA, where he wrote extensively on a wide range of election issues and edited the Election Integrity News. He has testified before the Senate Rules Committee, the Committee on House Administration, and the Election Assistance Commission. His research and data collection for Verified Voting have  informed policymakers across the country and are regularly cited in numerous publications, including the New York Times, Washington Post, and CNN. Warren’s writing has been published in the Harvard Law and Policy Review, the Washington Spectator, and elsewhere. He was awarded the 2020 John Gideon Memorial Award by the Election Verification Network for his advocacy and research.

As Development Director, Ellie Yearns is responsible for identifying, cultivating, securing, and stewarding new development initiatives and donors while strategically expanding capacity and impact. Ellie has over seventeen years of fundraising experience in the nonprofit sector to help Verified Voting fulfill its mission. She has spent the majority of her professional career in higher education advancement, first as part of Guilford College’s advancement team for 10 years, and then as Assistant Vice President for Development at Greensboro College for seven years. While at those institutions, she was a frontline fundraiser during two comprehensive capital campaigns that successfully achieved or surpassed their goals, raising $75 million and $21 million. Ellie earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Greensboro College. In her spare time she enjoys running, cooking, traveling, and spending time with her family.

Barbara Simons is a former President of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the nation’s largest educational and scientific computing society. She is the only woman to have received the Distinguished Engineering Alumni Award from the College of Engineering of U.C. Berkeley, where she earned her Ph.D. in computer science. A fellow of ACM and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, she also received the Computing Research Association Distinguished Service Award and the Electronic Frontier Foundation Pioneer Award. An expert on electronic voting, she published Broken Ballots: Will Your Vote Count?, a book on voting machines co-authored with Douglas Jones. She has been on the Board of Advisors of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission since 2008, and she co-authored the report that led to the cancellation of Department of Defense’s Internet voting project (SERVE) in 2004 because of security concerns. She was a member of the National Workshop on Internet Voting, convened by President Clinton, that conducted one of the first studies of Internet Voting and produced a report in 2001. She co-authored the July 2015 report of the U.S. Vote Foundation entitled The Future of Voting: End-to-End Verifiable Internet Voting. She is retired from IBM Research.

A former civil rights and voting rights litigator, Allegra consults for social justice, voting rights, and political organizations on strategies to build bridges between communities, enhance electoral and political participation, and heal divides. To these ends, she writes, researches, and advises philanthropies. She has worked in government (NY State Attorney General’s Office, Civil Rights Bureau), private practice (Lansner & Kubitschek), and at nonprofit organizations (Dēmos, Common Cause). She holds a B.A. in Philosophy from McGill University and a J.D. from Emory Law School.

Martin E. Hellman, Ph.D. is Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University and best known for his invention, with Diffie and Merkle, of public key cryptography. This technology allows electronic banking and other secure transactions on the Internet, and protects literally trillions of dollars daily. Prof. Hellman has been a long-time contributor to the computer security debate, starting with his efforts in the mid 1970s to improve the security level of the Data Encryption Standard (DES). In the mid 1990s he served on the National Research Council’s Committee to Study National Cryptographic Policy, whose main recommendations have since been implemented. His current project focuses on reducing the unacceptable level of risk inherent in nuclear deterrence. Prof. Hellman’s many awards include the ACM Turing Award in 2015, election to the National Academy of Engineering, induction as an inaugural member of the Cyber Security Hall of Fame, EFF’s Pioneer Award, and three “outstanding professor” awards from minority student organizations..

Neal McBurnett is an independent consultant in election integrity, security and data science. He has helped secure elections since 2002 by pioneering post-election audits, serving as a precinct election judge, and working with election administrators, legislators and secretaries of state. He was a major contributor to “Principles and Best Practices for Post-Election Audits” (2008). He conducted the first risk-limiting audit outside California, and consulted on Colorado’s Risk Limiting Audit project and ballot-level risk-limiting audits that reached new levels of efficiency and scale. He also audited the innovative Scantegrity end-to-end-verifiable election in Takoma Park MD in 2011, and was a member of the STAR-Vote design team. He has also contributed to data format standards for elections, having served as vice-chair of IEEE P1622, and worked with NIST and the US Election Assistance Commission (EAC) in several VVSG working groups. He is active with the Election Verification Network, and has served on the board of the Center for Election Science, exploring voting methods that better represent voters’ preferences. McBurnett worked as a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff at Bell Labs, Denver, where he led engagement with the WWW, IETF and open source. Then he helped run the Internet2 / NIST IDtrust symposium for 10 years, and has also taught AI at the University of Colorado, and worked with Databricks and Free & Fair. He holds Computer Science degrees from the University of California at Berkeley (M.S.) and Brown University (B.S.).

Bertrall Ross is the Thurgood Marshall Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Virginia Law School. Ross teaches and writes in the areas of constitutional law, constitutional theory, election law, administrative law and statutory interpretation. 

 Ross’ research is driven by a concern about democratic responsiveness and accountability, as well as the inclusion of marginalized communities in administrative and political processes. His past scholarship has been published in several books, edited volumes, and journals. Two of his articles were selected by the Yale/Harvard/Stanford Junior Faculty Forum.  

 Prior to joining the Virginia faculty, Ross was the Chancellor’s Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law. At Berkeley, he was awarded the Rutter Award for Teaching Excellence, the Berlin Prize from the American Academy in Berlin, and the Princeton University Law and Public Affairs Fellowship. Prior to joining the legal academy, Ross was the Kellis Parker Academic Fellow at Columbia Law School and a Marshall Scholar at the University of London School of Oriental and African Studies and the London School of Economics and Political Science.  Ross is currently serving as the Chair of the Rulemaking Committee for the Administrative Conference of the United States and previously served on President Joseph Biden’s Commission on the Supreme Court. 

 Ross earned his undergraduate degree in international affairs and history from the University of Colorado, Boulder; his graduate degrees from the London School of Economics and Princeton University’s School of Public and International Affairs; and his law degree from Yale Law School. After law school, he clerked for Judge Dorothy Nelson of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and Judge Myron Thompson of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama.

Eileen Segall has more than 20 years of experience in the financial services industry. Her past roles include as a Senior Investment Analyst at Ensemble Capital Management, a Senior Analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence, and various roles at Artisan Partners, Tildenrow Partners, Nicusa Capital and Robertson Stephens. She also served for three years on the Board of Directors of On Track Innovations, Ltd., a NASDAQ-listed company, where she was Chair of the Audit Committee and Chair of the Compensation Committee. Ms. Segall holds a bachelor’s degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) in Materials Science and Engineering.

Kevin Shelley is a former California Secretary of State and State Assembly leader recognized as an advocate for working people, consumers and investors. Mr. Shelley’s political involvement began in 1978 as a staff member to U.S. Representatives Phil and Sala Burton. He then played a key role in electing their successor, current Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi, in 1987. His own political career began in 1990, when he won a seat on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. Elected to the California State Assembly in 1996, he championed the rights of workers and fought to protect civil rights.

Mr. Shelley, who spent five of his six years in the State Assembly as Majority Leader, won election for Secretary of State in November 2002. As the state’s Chief Election Officer, he is credited with improving voter participation, calmly overseeing the historic recall election, and decertifying problematic electronic voting machines. He established the first in the nation standards for accessible voter-verified paper audit trails to be used with direct recording electronic (DRE) voting machines in California. Since 2005, Mr. Shelley has been representing consumers and plaintiffs in civil litigation. He is the son of Jack Shelley, a former San Francisco mayor, U.S. congressman and California state senator.

Poorvi Vora is Professor of Computer Science at The George Washington University (GW) and currently serves on the Coordinating Committee of the Election Verification Network. She is interested in risk limiting audits, and, with collaborators, is working on the Minerva audit, a new ballot polling approach for some models of the election audit process. Previously, she has worked on end-to-end independently verifiable (E2E) voting systems which enable voters and observers to audit election outcomes without requiring them to rely on the trustworthiness of election technology or unobserved election processes. Prof. Vora was a member of the team that deployed polling-­place, paper-­ballot-­based, E2E voting system Scantegrity II in the Takoma Park elections of 2009 and 2011, and of the team that developed remote voting E2E system Remotegrity and accessible voting variant Audiotegrity, used in 2011. She has worked with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) on definitions of desired properties of E2E systems, and on information-­theoretic models and measures of voting system security properties. She has a Ph.D from North Carolina State University.

Andrew W. Appel, Ph.D., is the Eugene Higgins Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University, where he has been on the faculty since 1986. He served as Department Chair from 2009-2015. His research is in software verification, computer security, programming languages and compilers, and technology policy. He received his A.B. /summa cum laude/ in physics from Princeton in 1981, and his PhD in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University in 1985. He has been Editor in Chief of ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems and is a Fellow of the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery). He has worked on fast N-body algorithms (1980s), Standard ML of New Jersey (1990s), Foundational Proof-Carrying Code (2000s), and the Verified Software Toolchain (2010s). He is the author of several scientific papers on voting machines and election technology, served as an expert witness on two voting-related court cases in New Jersey, taught a course at Princeton on Election Machinery, and was a member of the 2017-18 National Academy of Sciences study committee on the Future of Voting.

Ruchika Agrawal has worked on intersectional technology, law, and public policy issues since 2001. She has published in major law and tech media and presented at numerous conferences. She worked at Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) on international privacy frameworks and privacy by design technologies. She has significant trial and litigation experience, diversified in-house counsel experience (in major software/hardware, cybersecurity, and semiconductor companies), is CIPP/US certified, and completed a federal district court clerkship. She does a lot of community service work, and her recognitions include the Bloomberg Financial Markets Award for Outstanding Service to the Community. She has a graduate degree in Computer Science from Stanford University and a law degree from the University of Virginia School of Law; she also has an undergraduate degree from Rutgers-New Brunswick, where she double-majored in Computer Science and Philosophy (sub-specializing in cognitive science, artificial intelligence, and machine learning).

Steven M. Bellovin is the Percy K. and Vidal L. W. Hudson Professor of computer science at Columbia University and member of the Cybersecurity and Privacy Center of the university’s Data Science Institute. He is the Technology Scholar at the Privacy and Civil Liberties Board. He does research on security and privacy and on related public policy issues. In his copious spare professional time, he does some work on the history of cryptography. He joined the faculty in 2005 after many years at Bell Labs and AT&T Labs Research, where he was an AT&T Fellow. He received a BA degree from Columbia University, and an MS and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. While a graduate student, he helped create Netnews; for this, he and the other perpetrators were given the 1995 Usenix Lifetime Achievement Award (The Flame). Bellovin has served as Chief Technologist of the Federal Trade Commission. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and is serving on the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. In the past, he has been a member of the Department of Homeland Security’s Science and Technology Advisory Committee, and the Technical Guidelines Development Committee of the Election Assistance Commission; he has also received the 2007 NIST/NSA National Computer Systems Security Award and has been elected to the Cybersecurity Hall of Fame.

Bellovin is the author of Thinking Security and the co-author of Firewalls and Internet Security: Repelling the Wily Hacker, and holds a number of patents on cryptographic and network protocols. He has served on many National Research Council study committees, including those on information systems trustworthiness, the privacy implications of authentication technologies, and cybersecurity research needs; he was also a member of the information technology subcommittee of an NRC study group on science versus terrorism. He was a member of the Internet Architecture Board from 1996-2002; he was co-director of the Security Area of the IETF from 2002 through 2004.

Matt Blaze is a computer science professor at the University of Pennsylvania, where his research focuses on secure systems, cryptography, surveillance, and the intersection of technology and public policy. He has led technical reviews on several voting systems commissioned by the states of California and Ohio.

Jeff Bleich is CLO of Cruise Automation. He previously served as the U.S. Ambassador to Australia from 2009 to 2013, and as Special Counsel to President Obama in the White House. In addition to this, he served as the CEO of Dentons Diplomatic Solutions, and as a partner at Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP. Ambassador Bleich has over two decades of experience working on complex cyber-security and technology issues. He served as a senior advisor to the Director of National Intelligence on cybersecurity matters, as well as serving as an advisor to California Governor Jerry Brown, and to Secretary Hillary Clinton. He serves on multiple boards including advisory boards of international cyber-technology companies and think tanks including RAND Australia, Tanium, and Nuix. He has been recognized as one of the most influential lawyers in the United States by LawDragon and other legal publications. Earlier in his career, Ambassador Bleich clerked for Chief Justice William Rehnquist of the U.S. Supreme Court, Judge Abner Mikva of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, Judge Howard Holtzmann of the Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal at The Hague, and was the Special Rapporteur for the Permanent Court of Arbitration. He is a certified arbitrator by the American Arbitration Association.

Cindy Cohn is the Executive Director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. From 2000-2015 she served as EFF’s Legal Director as well as its General Counsel. Ms. Cohn first became involved with EFF in 1993, when EFF asked her to serve as the outside lead attorney in Bernstein v. Dept. of Justice, the successful First Amendment challenge to the U.S. export restrictions on cryptography. The National Law Journal named Ms. Cohn one of 100 most influential lawyers in America in 2013, noting: “[I]f Big Brother is watching, he better look out for Cindy Cohn.” She was also named in 2006 for “rushing to the barricades wherever freedom and civil liberties are at stake online.” In 2007 the National Law Journal named her one of the 50 most influential women lawyers in America. In 2010 the Intellectual Property Section of the State Bar of California awarded her its Intellectual Property Vanguard Award and in 2012 the Northern California Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists awarded her the James Madison Freedom of Information Award.

Lillie Coney is currently the Legislative Director for Representative Sheila Jackson Lee, previously she was the Associate Director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center in Washington, DC. In 2009 Lillie was appointed to the Election Assistance Commission Board of Advisors. She wrote the chapter “Mobilize Underrepresented Voters” in The New York Times bestseller, 50 Ways to Love Your Country. She co-chaired the 2011 Computers Freedom and Privacy Conference: the Future is Now, and chaired the Public Voice Conferences in 2010 and 2011.

Larry Diamond is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University, where he teaches courses on comparative democratic development and serves as Principal Investigator of the Global Digital Policy Incubator at Stanford’s Cyber Policy Center. He previously directed Stanford’s Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law and was Faculty Director of the Haas Center for Public Service. He is the founding co editor of the Journal of Democracy and also serves as senior consultant at the International Forum for Democratic Studies of the National Endowment for Democracy. His research focuses on democratic trends and conditions around the world and on policies and reforms to defend and advance democracy. His latest book is Ill Winds: Saving Democracy from Russian Rage, Chinese Ambition, and American Complacency. He has served as a consultant to the US Agency for International Development (USAID) and has advised and lectured to the World Bank, the United Nations, the State Department, and other governmental and nongovernmental agencies dealing with governance and development.

David L. Dill, Ph.D. is the founder of the Verified Voting and served as a board member for twenty years. Since 2003, Prof. Dill has been working actively on policy issues in voting technology. He is the author of the “Resolution on Electronic Voting”, which calls for a voter-verifiable audit trail on all voting equipment, and which has been endorsed by thousands of people, including many of the top computer scientists in the U.S. His research and credibility has led him to be called to testify on electronic voting before the U.S. Senate and the Commission on Federal Election Reform, co-chaired by Jimmy Carter and James Baker III. Prof. Dill has an S.B. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1979), and an M.S and Ph.D. from Carnegie-Mellon University (1982 and 1987). He is currently the Donald E. Knuth Professor in the School of Engineering and Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. Prof. Dill’s research interests are in a variety of areas including asynchronous circuit verification and synthesis, and in verification methods for hard real-time systems. His vigorous research has led him to be recognized by many institutions, granting him awards such as the “Test of Time” award from the ACM Conference on Computer.

Efrain Escobedo is the vice president in charge of civic engagement, multisector collaboration and public policy at California Community Foundation, responsible for promoting collaboration and advocacy efforts across the nonprofit, public and private sectors to address community problems. He is recognized nationally and locally as an active leader and expert in Latino civic engagement and elections policy. He has worked extensively with academia, civic and community organizations, as well as with elected officials in developing research, strategies and program to increase voter participation.

Prior to joining CCF, Escobedo was the manager of governmental and legislative affairs for the Registrar of Voters in Los Angeles County, the largest election jurisdiction in the nation with more than 4.5 million registered voters. There, he worked with elected officials to enact numerous initiatives aimed at making the voting process easier for Angelenos, including the electronic delivery of sample ballots and the authorization of online voter registration. Escobedo also served as senior director of civic engagement for the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials (NALEO) Educational Fund, where he led the development of innovative voter contact strategies and technologies that have helped to engage more than one million young, newly registered and infrequent Latino voters across the country. Escobedo earned his bachelor’s degree in American studies and ethnicity from the University of Southern California and is a recent graduate of the Los Angeles County Executive Leadership Program.

Jeremy Epstein is lead program officer for the NSF Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) program, NSF’s flagship multi-disciplinary cybersecurity & privacy program. Prior to this role, he was Deputy Division Director of CISE/CNS, where he was responsible for research in a range of computer science programs, including cybersecurity, cyber physical systems, smart and connected communities, computer systems, networking, computer science education, technology transition, and other assorted topics.

Prior to (re)joining NSF in 2017, he was a program manager at DARPA I2O, and a program officer for NSF’s Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) program. He spent most of his career in industry, including at SRI International and webMethods. His areas of interest are in cybersecurity, particularly elections and voting security.

Jeremy is also chair of the Association for Computing Machinery US Technology Policy Committee, founder/director of ACSA Scholarships for Women Studying Information Security (SWSIS), and former associate editor-in-chief of IEEE Security and Privacy Magazine.

Aleksander Essex is an associate professor of software engineering at Western University, Canada. His research specializes in cybersecurity and cryptography, focusing on the cyber risks of online voting. He co-initiated the Digital Governance Standards Institute’s voluntary standard on online voting and has advised numerous election agencies, including many Ontario municipalities, as well as Elections Ontario, Elections Northwest Territories, Elections Yukon, the National Association of Aboriginal Lands Managers Association, the Swiss Federal Chancellery, and the Australian Capital Territory Election Commission.

Dave Farber was appointed to be Chief Technologist at the US Federal Communications Commission in 2000 and has served on the U.S. Presidential Advisory Board on Information Technology and the FCC’s Technological Advisory Council. Prof. Farber was also appointed to the Advisory Council or the CISE Directorate of the National Science Foundation and is a Trustee of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. He is a Visiting Professor of the Center for Global Communications of Japan — Glocom of the International University of Japan, a Member of the Advisory Board at the National Institute of Informatics of Japan and a Member of the Advisory Boards of both the Center for Democracy and Technology and EPIC. He was named in the 1997 edition of the UPSIDE’s Elite 100, as one of the Visionaries of the field and was named in the 1999 Network World as one of the 25 most powerful people in Networking. In 2002 he was named by Business Week as one of the top 25 leaders in E-Commerce. His industrial experiences are extensive, just as he entered the academic world; he co-founded Caine, Farber & Gordon Inc. (CFG Inc.) which became one of the leading suppliers of software design methodology. His consulting activities include Intel, the RAND Corp among others. He is also on a number of industrial advisory and management boards, major among these are NTT DoCoMo, Boingo, Rainmaker and E-tenna.

Edward W. Felten, Ph.D. is a Professor of Computer Science and Public Affairs at Princeton University, and the founding Director of Princeton’s Center for Information Technology Policy. In 2011-12 he served as the first Chief Technologist at the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. His research interests include computer security and privacy, especially relating to media and consumer products; and technology law and policy. He has published about eighty papers in the research literature, and two books. His research on topics such as web security, copyright and copy protection, and electronic voting has been covered extensively in the popular press. His weblog, at freedom-to-tinker.com, is widely read for its commentary on technology, law, and policy. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and is a Fellow of the ACM. He has testified before the House and Senate committee hearings on privacy, electronic voting, and digital television. In 2004, Scientific American magazine named him to its list of fifty worldwide science and technology leaders. In May 2015 he was appointed deputy chief technology officer in the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy.

Lowell Finley is an attorney with a long history of involvement in election integrity issues. In 2003, he brought the first successful lawsuit against a voting system manufacturer for misrepresenting the security capabilities of its product while marketing it to a county elections department. That case, under the California False Claims Act, resulted in $2.6 million in payments to state and local agencies and an injunction, requiring Diebold Election Systems, Inc., to strengthen the security protocols employed with its Accuvote TS touchscreen voting machines and vote tabulation servers. He was co-founder and co-director of Voter Action, a nonprofit that litigated state constitutional challenges to the use of paperless touchscreen voting systems in California, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado and Pennsylvania in 2005 and 2006. From 2007 to 2014, he served as Deputy Secretary of State for Voting Systems Technology and Policy under California Secretary of State Debra Bowen. In that capacity, he oversaw the 2007 Top To Bottom Review of the voting systems used in California, conducted in collaboration with computer security experts from the University of California, Princeton, Rice and other universities, which led to the decertification of several voting systems and eventually to the adoption of new, comprehensive voting system certification standards. He also served as California’s representative on the Standards Board of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission. He holds a B.A. from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law.

Michael J. Fischer, Ph.D. has been Professor of Computer Science at Yale University since 1981. He has an M.A. (1965) and a Ph.D. (1968) from Harvard University. Professor Fischer supervised Josh Benaloh‘s dissertation, “Verifiable Secret-Ballot Elections” (1987), which was the first distributed voting protocol to simultaneously achieve voter privacy and voter verifiability. Professor Fischer is a founding member of TrueVoteCT.org, a public-service organization that helped to bring verifiable optical scan voting technology to Connecticut. He was appointed by Connecticut Governor Jodi Rell in 2005 to the short-lived Voting Technology Standards Board, where he was elected Vice-chair by its members. His research interests include theory of distributed and parallel computing, cryptography, and computer security.

John Gage is one of the founders of Sun Microsystems, a US computer pioneer. He was Chief Researcher, Vice President, and Director of the Science Office from 1982 until 2008. From 2008-2010 he was a partner at venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, focused on creating new companies based on innovations in energy, computing and materials technology. In 2010 he joined the University of California, Berkeley Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society. In 2011, he joined the Human Needs Project in Kibera, Nairobi, Kenya as Chief Science Officer to develop and build water, sanitation, information and control systems to advance public health in the largest slum in East Africa. The Centre opened in 2014, and delivers hundreds of cubic meters of clean water a day to thousands of members of the slum community.Gage has served on scientific advisory panels for the US National Research Council, the US National Academy of Sciences, and the World Economic Forum. Most recently, he served on the US National Academy Committee on Scientific Communication and National Security and on the Markle Foundation Task Force on National Security, whose reports aided in reorganizing US intelligence agencies. He co-founded NetDay in 1995, bringing Internet connectivity to over 70,000 US schools by mobilizing hundreds of thousands of volunteer engineers. He has served on the boards of the US National Library of Medicine, of FermiLab, the Berkeley Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, and other scientific and educational groups. He served on the Board of Directors of the Markle Foundation in New York, and on the United Nations Digital Task Force. Currently he serves on the board of Liquid Robotics, on the Malaysian International Advisory Panel, and on the advisory boards of the University of California, Berkeley Goldman School of Public Policy, the Oxford Martin School, the Tegla Loroupe Peace Foundation in Kenya, the Human Needs Project, and the Open Source Election Technology Institute. Gage attended the University of California, Berkeley, the Harvard Business School, and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.

Susannah Goodman is the Director of the Election Security Program at Common Cause. She works on
the state and federal level to advocate for policies which bring resilience, auditability and confidence to
U.S. voting systems and election infrastructure. She works closely with Common Cause national and
state staff and coalition partners across the country. She has testified before Congressional and state
legislative committees, appeared on national news television programs, and co- authored a number of
reports on elections and voting including Malfunction and Malfeasance: A Report on the Electronic
Voting Machine Debacle, Is America Ready to Vote? State Preparations for Voting Machine Problems in 2008, Voting in 2010: Ten Swing States, and Counting Votes 2012: A State by State Guide to Election Preparedness, The Secret Ballot At Risk, Email and Internet Voting: The Overlooked Risk to Election Security. She is the recipient of the Electronic Verification Network’s Long Term Contributor award. Ms. Goodman joined Common Cause in 2004 after more than 15 years of advocacy and organizing experience. She is a graduate of Wesleyan University.

J. Alex Halderman is Professor of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Michigan and Director of Michigan’s Center for Computer Security and Society. His research spans computer and network security, applied cryptography, security measurement, censorship resistance, and electronic voting, as well as the interaction of technology with politics and international affairs. Prof. Halderman has authored more than 80 technical publications, and his work has been recognized with numerous awards, including the John Gideon Memorial Award from the Election Verification Network. He has performed numerous security evaluations of real-world voting systems, both in the U.S. and around the world. He helped conduct California’s landmark “top-to-bottom” electronic voting systems review. He also led the first independent review of election technology in India, the world’s largest democracy. He led a team that hacked into Washington D.C.’s Internet voting system as part of a public security test, and he organized the first independent security audit of Estonia’s national online voting system. After the 2016 U.S. elections, he advised recount initiatives in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania in an effort to help detect and deter cyberattacks. He is also the creator of Security Digital Democracy, a massive, open, online course that explores the security risks—and future potential—of electronic voting and Internet voting technologies. He was named by Popular Science as one of the “brightest young minds reshaping science, engineering, and the world.”

Donna Hall served as the President & CEO of the Women Donors Network (WDN) from August 2002 – December 2022. In her role she oversaw a community of more than 250 progressive, activist women donors who invest their energy, strategic savvy, and their philanthropic dollars to build a just and fair world. In 2018, a c4 arm, WDN Action, was launched and Hall served as the President of the c4 Board of Directors.

Hall’s career has crisscrossed the public and private sectors as a manager, strategic planner, foundation executive and deputy director of a woman’s think tank. She worked at The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, the Center for the Advancement of Women, and The Rockefeller Foundation prior to her twenty-year tenure at WDN.

Issues of particular concern include preserving a robust democracy, reproductive health and access to health services, women’s empowerment, the needs of at-risk youth, economic development, racial and gender equity, and communication and public awareness strategies that will facilitate social and environmental change.

Donna Hall earned her MBA and BA degrees from Stanford University and her MPH from the University of California, Berkeley, School of Public Health. She is a member of the Women’s Forum West and the International Women’s Forum. She has served on numerous not-for-profit boards, including Hedgebrook, the Meridian Institute, the Communications Consortium Media Center and UltraViolet Action.

Joseph Lorenzo Hall is the Senior Vice President for a Strong Internet at the Internet Society (ISOC), a global non-profit organization dedicated to an open, globally-connected, secure, and trustworthy Internet for everyone. Hall leads ISOC’s Strong Internet portfolio including encryption, routing security, time security, open-standards-based secure servers, and making the case for the Internet Way of Networking. Prior to joining ISOC in 2019, Hall was the Chief Technologist and Director of the Internet Architecture project at the Center for Democracy & Technology. Before that, Hall was an academic, completing postdoctoral research with Helen Nissenbaum at New York University, Ed Felten at Princeton University and Deirdre Mulligan at University of California, Berkeley. Hall received his Ph.D. in Information Systems from the UC Berkeley School of Information in 2008. There, he became a founding member of the National Science Foundation’s ACCURATE Center (A Center for Correct, Usable, Reliable, Auditable and Transparent Elections). He has served as an expert on independent teams invited by the States of California, Ohio and Maryland to analyze legal, privacy, security, usability and economic aspects of voting systems. In 2012, Hall received the John Gideon Memorial Award from the Election Verification Network for contributions to election verification.

Mark Halvorson is the founder, former director and current board member of Citizens for Election Integrity Minnesota. He has observed four statewide recounts, six statewide audits and has recruited and trained many non-partisan observers. In 2007 Mark helped to organize the first national Audit Summit. He created the audit and recount state laws searchable databases and was an executive editor of Principles and Best Practices of Post-Election Audits as well as Recount Principles and Best Practices. He served on the Brennan Center Audit Panel and the national League of Women Voters audit working group. Mark was the recipient of the Election Verification Network’s 2017 John Gideon Memorial award for his long standing and highly effective advocacy for election integrity.

John Hennessy, a pioneer in computer architecture, joined Stanford’s faculty in 1977 as an assistant professor of electrical engineering. In 1981, he drew together researchers to focus on a technology known as RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computer), which revolutionized computing by increasing performance while reducing costs. Hennessy helped transfer this technology to industry cofounding MIPS Computer Systems in 1984. His subsequent research focused on multiprocessor systems, including the DASH and FLASH projects, both of which pioneered concepts now used in industry. He was appointed as the inaugural Willard R. and Inez Kerr Bell Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in 1987. He has been chair of Computer Science (1994-1996), dean of the School of Engineering (1996-1999), and university provost (1999-2000) before being appointed as Stanford’s 10th president in 2000. As president he focused on increasing financial aid and on developing new initiatives in multidisciplinary research and teaching. He was the founding board chair of Atheros Communications, one of the early developers of WiFi technology, and has served on the board of Cisco and Alphabet (Google’s parent company). He is the coauthor (with David Patterson) of two internationally used textbooks in computer architecture.

His honors include the 2012 Medal of Honor of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the 2017 ACM Turing Award (jointly with David Patterson), the 2001 Eckert-Mauchly Award of the Association for Computing Machinery; the 2001 Seymour Cray Computer Engineering Award, and the 2004 NEC C&C Prize for lifetime achievement in computer science and engineering. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Science, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, The Royal Academy of Engineering, and the American Philosophical Society. Hennessy earned his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Villanova University and his master’s and doctoral degrees in computer science from Stony Brook University.

Roger G. Johnston, Ph.D., CPP, is Leader of the Vulnerability Assessment Team at Argonne National Laboratory. He was founder and head of the Vulnerability Assessment Team at Los Alamos National Laboratory from 1992 to 2007. Johnston has provided consulting, training, vulnerability assessments, R&D, and security solutions for more than 50 government and international agencies, private companies, and NGOs. He graduated from Carleton College (1977), and received M.S. & Ph.D. degrees in physics from the University of Colorado (1983). He has authored over 165 technical papers and 90 invited talks (including 6 Keynote Addresses), holds 10 U.S. patents, and serves as Editor of the Journal of Physical Security.

The Honorable Anita Jones is University Professor Emerita at the University of Virginia. She has served as the Director of Defense Research and Engineering for the U.S. Department of Defense, overseeing its science and technology program. She is currently a Fellow of the Defense Science Board and a member of the National Academy of Engineering, serving on its governing council. She was appointed by the President as a member of the National Science Board, and is a Fellow of the ACM, IEEE, and AAAS. The University of Southern California, Carnegie Mellon University, and Duke University have awarded Dr. Jones honorary degrees. She was awarded the IEEE Founders’ Medal, the Bueche Award of the National Academy of Engineering, and the Philip Abelson Award of the AAAS, mainly for contributions to science and technology policy She has published over 45 papers on cyber security, programmed systems, and science and technology policy. The U.S. Navy named a seamount in the North Pacific Ocean for her.

Douglas W. Jones, Ph.D. is a computer scientist at the University of Iowa. Together with Barbara Simons, he published Broken Ballots: Will Your Vote Count?. His involvement with electronic voting research began in late 1994, when he was appointed to the Iowa Board of Examiners for Voting Machines and Electronic Voting Systems. He chaired the board from 1999 to 2003, and has testified before the United States Commission on Civil Rights, the United States House Committee on Science and the Federal Election Commission on voting issues. In 2005 he participated as an election observer for the presidential election in Kazakhstan. Jones was the technical advisor for HBO’s documentary on electronic voting machine issues, “Hacking Democracy“, that was released in 2006. He was a member of the ACCURATE electronic voting project from 2005 to 2011. On Dec. 11, 2009, the Election Assistance Commission appointed Douglas Jones to the Technical Guidelines Development Committee, where he served until 2012. Jones received a B.S. in physics from Carnegie Mellon University in 1973, and a M.S. and Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1976 and 1980 respectively.

Lou Katz, Ph.D.has a Doctorate in Physics from the University of Wisconsin, was a molecular biologist at MIT and the Director of the Computer Graphics Facility in the Department of Biology, Columbia University and Director of the Core Computer Facility at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and Director of Computing Resources in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley. As one of the founders of the Usenix Association, he served as its first President and also as a director, and he also served as a member of the Executive Committee of ACM/Siggraph. He is experienced in computer systems and network management, database and email systems, and in evaluating the security aspects of software prior to deployment on internet-facing servers.

Douglas A. Kellner has served as Co-Chair of the New York State Board of Elections since 2005. He is also the New York State representative on the U.S. Election Assistance Commission Standards Board. Before assuming his responsibilities at the State Board of Elections, he served as commissioner of the New York City Board of Elections. He is an experienced election lawyer having served as the Co-Chair of the Law Committee of the New York Democratic Committee from 1982 to 1993 and as the Chairman of the Election Law Committee of the New York County Lawyers Association.When he was first appointed to the New York City Board in 1993, Commissioner Kellner was the very first election official to call for a voter verifiable paper audit trail for electronic voting machines, a principle now enshrined not only in New York law, but in the election codes of a majority of the states throughout the nation. While leading the opposition to unverifiable electronic machines, Commissioner Kellner was instrumental in promoting new technology for scanning absentee and provisional ballots. He drafted model procedures to open the process of canvassing ballots to public scrutiny and convinced his fellow commissioners to adopt rules that provided meaningful due process in ballot challenges. He has been an outspoken advocate for improving the voting process in New York while insisting on transparency, verifiability and uniformity in voting procedures. Doug is a partner in the law firm, Kellner Herlihy Getty & Friedman LLP, where he specializes in complex international asset recovery litigation. He is the Chair of the North America Region of FraudNet, an organization of experts formed by the International Chamber of Commerce to assist in fraud recovery and tracing of assets.

Dr. Joseph Kiniry is a Principal Scientist at Galois. Previously, he was a Full Professor at the Technical University of Denmark where he was the Head of the Software Engineering section. Since the early 2000s he has held permanent positions at four universities in Denmark, Ireland, and The Netherlands. Dr. Kiniry has extensive experience in formal methods, high-assurance software and hardware engineering, foundations of computer science and mathematics, and information security. Specific areas that he has worked in include software and hardware verification foundations and tools, the RISC-V ISA, digital election systems and democracies, smart-cards, smart-phones, critical systems for nation states, and CAD systems for asynchronous hardware. He has nearly twenty years experience in the design, development, support, and auditing of supervised and internet/remote electronic voting systems. He co-led the DemTech research group at the IT University of Copenhagen and has served as an adviser to the US, Dutch, Irish, and Danish governments in matters relating to electronic voting.

Audrey Malagon, Ph.D. is Professor and Chair of the Mathematics Department at Virginia Wesleyan University. From 2018-2022 she served as mathematical advisor to Verified Voting where she combined her technical expertise and administrative capabilities to advance initiatives with state and national program teams. She was the Virginia lead for strategy and implementation of education and advocacy efforts, including the passage of the first pre-certification risk-limiting audit legislation in Virginia. She worked with the national team on strategic planning, education and outreach, and was part of the team that designed and executed the inaugural Audit Road Show to reach election officials through their professional organizations. She has attended and led risk-limiting audit trainings for election officials. As a subject matter expert in mathematical audits, she authored educational materials and website content for Verified Voting. Dr. Malagon regularly speaks to a variety of academic and public audiences about elections and technology and has been quoted in Bloomberg Businessweek, Stateline, and Slate Future Tense. In 2020 she organized a special session at the Joint Mathematics Meetings of the American Mathematical Society and the Mathematical Association of America to bring awareness of the role mathematics plays in election security to the broader mathematical community.

In addition to her work in election security, Dr. Malagon has served on boards of charitable and educational foundations. As a member of the advisory board of the SIMIODE organization, she was instrumental in securing an approximately $450,000 National Science Foundation grant for a program that trained faculty across the country under her leadership. She currently chairs the Council on Teaching and Learning for the Mathematical Association of America which advises on policy and sets guidelines and recommendations on undergraduate mathematics for the organization’s 7,000+ professional members. She guided an organizational restructuring of the council for better efficiency and coordination among its nearly 100 volunteers and full-time staff. Audrey holds a Ph.D. in mathematics from Emory University.

John L. McCarthy has a B.A. from Stanford and Ph.D. in American History from Yale, where he taught quantitative methods for historical research from 1968 to 1974, when he moved to UC Berkeley’s Survey Research Center. In 1980 John moved to the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory to help develop the first on-line database of U.S. Census data. Over the next 25 years he helped develop several major database and information systems and served on international standards committees for databases and metadata registries.After retiring from Berkeley Lab, John has been a “full time volunteer” with Verified Voting since 2004, when he served as Project Manager for design and implementation of the first web-based Election Incident Reporting System for the Election Protection Coalition. In 2006 John initiated Verified Voting’s Election Auditing Project in cooperation with statisticians from the American Statistical Association and election integrity advocates, and he continues to help lead efforts for election auditing legislation, regulations, software, and implementation. Since 2012 John has served on IEEE and NIST-EAC standards committees for various aspects of election data, including election process modeling, reporting, inter-operability, and cyber-security.

Justin Moore, Ph.D. is a Senior Software Engineer with Google in Washington, DC. Since 2013 he has been a member of the Civics and Election Search team, working to make such data universally accessible and useful. His recent projects focus on common data standards for election information, working with state and location election officials, election vendors, and media organizations to enable greater civic engagement. Prior to this he was a member of the Datacenter Software team for seven years, working to improve the efficiency of Google’s fleet of datacenters. His PhD dissertation at Duke University explored how to schedule jobs in a datacenter with the goal of reducing the total cost of ownership; this was achieved by modeling and predicting the power, cooling, and hardware reliability effects of running computational tasks on different servers. Also while at Duke, he was an expert witness to both the North Carolina and Virginia state legislative subcommittees on voting reform. His contributions in North Carolina helped pass a comprehensive election reform bill in 2005 that has served as a model for dozens of other state-level reforms.

Peter Neumann has a Doctorate degree from Harvard University and Darmstadt University. He worked at Bell Labs in Murray Hill, New Jersey throughout the 1960s, including five years heavily involved in the Multics development jointly with MIT and Honeywell. He has been in SRI’s Computer Science Lab since September 1971, and is now Chief Scientist. He moderates the ACM Risks Forum, and has been editor for CACM’s Inside Risks columns since 1990. Since 2010 he has led several DARPA projects on the CHERI hardware-software system and the formal verification of its hardware instruction-set architecture, jointly with the University of Cambridge.

Mike Olson earned Bachelors and Master’s degrees in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley. He spent his professional career working in data management in a variety of roles, including developer, sales and marketing, and senior executive. He served as CEO at Sleepycat Software from 2001 through its acquisition by Oracle in 2006, and continued as VP Embedded Systems at Oracle until 2008. He was a co-founder, board chair and CEO at Cloudera from 2008 until 2013, when he became the company’s Chief Strategy Officer until his retirement in 2019. He currently holds a number of board seats at not-for-profit organizations pursuing social good programs in the technology sector.

Morris Pearl currently serves as Chair of the Patriotic Millionaires, a group of 200 high-net-worth Americans who are committed to building a more prosperous, stable, and inclusive nation. The group focuses on promoting public policy solutions that encourage political equality; guarantee a sustaining wage for working Americans; and ensure that millionaires, billionaires, and corporations pay their fair share of taxes.Previously, Pearl was a managing director at BlackRock, one of the largest investment firms in the world, His work included the Maiden Lane transactions and assessing the government’s potential losses from bank bailouts in the United States and in Europe. Prior to BlackRock, Pearl had a long tenure on Wall Street where he invented some of the securitization technology connecting America’s capital markets to consumers in need of credit. He is a CFA Charter Holder, a member of the CFA Institute, the New York Society of Securities Analysts, and on the board of The Center for Political Accountability. Pearl lives in New York City with his wife Barbara where he enjoys spending time with his two adult sons and riding his bicycle around the city.

Alexa Raad is a 25+ year tech veteran and C-suite executive in the DNS, internet infrastructure and cybersecurity industry. She received her MBA and MSIS from George Washington University in 1993 and 1998 respectively. She has led multiple initiatives to ensure a safer internet from both a technical and policy standpoint. She spearheaded the adoption of DNSSEC (DNS Security Extension Protocols) as CEO of Public Interest Registry, the organization behind the .org Top Level Domain. Alexa has conceived, built and led DNS industry-wide coalitions and organizations to address larger issues such as DNS abuse and cybersecurity. She is the author of a US and European patent on cybersecurity. Alexa is also a member of the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, and has served by appointment as a Webby’s judge since 2008.

Ronald L. Rivest, Ph.D. is an Institute Professor of Computer Science in MIT’s Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He is a member of MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), a member of the lab’s Theory of Computation Group and is a leader of its Cryptography and Information Security Group. He is a founder of RSA Data Security, an inventor of the RSA public-key cryptosystem, and a co-founder of Verisign and of Peppercoin. Prof. Rivest’s research interests includes cryptography, computer and network security, voting systems, and algorithms. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Sciences, and sits on the EPIC Advisory Board.

In 2005, he received the MITX Lifetime Achievement Award; in 2007, he received both the Computers, Freedom and Privacy Conference “Distinguished Innovator” award and the Marconi Prize. He has extensive experience in cryptographic design and cryptanalysis, and served as a Director of the International Association for Cryptologic Research, the organizing body for the Eurocrypt and Crypto conferences, and as a Director of the Financial Cryptography Association. He has served on the Technical Guidelines Development Committee, advisory to the U.S. Election Assistance Commission, as head of its Security and Transparency subcommittee.

Dr. Aviel (Avi) D. Rubin is Professor of Computer Science and Technical Director of the Information Security Institute at Johns Hopkins University. Rubin has focused most of his professional career on the security of electronic voting. He was Director of the NSF Accurate Center for Secure Elections and served in 6 elections as a Maryland Elections Judge. He testified about the security of voting machines before the U.S. House and Senate on multiple occasions, and he is the author of several books about computer security, including Brave New Ballot (Random House). Rubin is a frequent keynote speaker at industry and academic conferences, and he delivered widely viewed TED talks in 2011 and 2015. In January, 2004 Baltimore Magazine named Rubin a Baltimorean of the Year for his work in safeguarding the integrity of our election process, and he is also the recipient of the 2004 Electronic Frontiers Foundation Pioneer Award. Rubin has a B.S, (’89), M.S.E (’91), and Ph.D. (’94) from the University of Michigan.

Ion Sancho was the Supervisor of Elections for Leon County, Florida for 27 years. Serving since January 1989, he has been reelected to five additional terms. One of only three (out of 67) supervisors of elections in Florida without party affiliation, Mr. Sancho has devoted special attention to studying voting technologies and increasing citizen participation in our electoral system. Under his administration Leon County’s voter turnout percentage has consistently ranked among the highest of Florida’s 67 counties, with a record setting 86% turnout in the November 2008 General Election. Mr. Sancho was appointed by the Florida Supreme Court in December of 2000 as the technical expert to oversee the Florida Recount effort and was recognized by the Leon County Board of County Commissioners for providing “statistically the cleanest county elections in the state” during that infamous election. In 2005, Mr. Sancho sanctioned the first tests of voting machines by voting integrity experts, independent of the vendors. His action were captured in the 2007 Emmy nominated film, “Hacking Democracy.”Sancho was the first Florida election official to attain national certification in 1996 (Certified Elections Registration Official, the Election Center). He is regularly interviewed by national and local media and has presented testimony before the United States Congress, the United States Election Assistance Committee, and the United States Civil Rights Commission. In 1998, he co-authored the first national Principles and Standards of Conduct of Elections/Registrations Officials. In 2008, the Leon County Supervisor of Elections Office received the National Freedom Award for outstanding innovations in the field of elections.

Dr. John E. Savage is the An Wang Emeritus Professor of Computer Science at Brown University. He joined Bell Laboratories in 1965 after earning his PhD in Electrical Engineering from MIT, moved to Brown University in 1967, co-founded the Department of Computer Science at Brown in 1979, and served as its second chair. At Brown he chaired the Faculty Executive Committee twice, the 2002-2003 Task Force on Faculty Governance, and many other committees. He was a member of the MIT Corporation Visiting Committee for EECS from 1991-2002 and gave testimony before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism in 2011. He authored or co-authored three books and will co-author a fourth, on cybersecurity policy and technology.
Dr. Savage has done research on coding and communications theory, theoretical computer science, VLSI theory, silicon compilation, scientific computing, computational nanotechnology, the performance of multicore chips, reliable computing with unreliable elements, and cybersecurity policy. He is a Guggenheim Fellow, a Fellow of AAAS and ACM, and a Life Fellow of IEEE. He served as Jefferson Science Fellow in the Bureau of Intelligence and Research of the U.S. Department of State in 2009-2010 and is a Professorial Fellow at the EastWest Institute.

Bruce Schneier is an internationally renowned security technologist, called a “security guru” by The Economist. He is the author of over one dozen books–including his latest, We Have Root–as well as hundreds of articles, essays, and academic papers. His influential newsletter “Crypto-Gram” and his blog “Schneier on Security” are read by over 250,000 people. He has testified before Congress, is a frequent guest on television and radio, has served on several government committees, and is regularly quoted in the press. Schneier is a fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University; a Lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School; a board member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, AccessNow, and the Tor Project; and an Advisory Board Member of the Electronic Privacy Information Center and VerifiedVoting.org. He is the Chief of Security Architecture at Inrupt, Inc.

Kevin Skoglund is digital security and election technology expert, and the President and Chief Technologist for Citizens for Better Elections, a non-profit, non-partisan group advocating for evidence-based elections. Kevin serves on the NIST Voting System Cybersecurity Working Group which develops national guidelines for U.S. voting systems, and he is a designated speaker on election security for the U.S. Department of State. His past work includes advising non-profits, counties, cities, and members of the U.S. Congress on voting system technology and election legislation, researching security vulnerabilities, and identifying voting systems connected to the internet. Kevin is also a Judge of Election (chief poll worker) in Pennsylvania. Outside of his election work, Kevin has been a programmer and teacher for over 20 years.

professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering (courtesy appointment), Philosophy (courtesy), a professor of Communication (courtesy), a professor of Political Science (courtesy), and is the founder and Executive Director Emeritus of the Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security. CERIAS is a campus-wide multi-disciplinary Center, with a broadly-focused mission to explore issues related to protecting information and information resources.Spafford has been working in computing as a student, researcher, consultant and professor for over 30 years. Some of his past work is at the foundation of current security practice, including intrusion detection, firewalls, and whitelisting. His most recent work has been in cyber security policy, forensics, and security philosophy. Professor Spafford is a Fellow of the AAAS, ACM, IEEE, (ISC)2, a Distinguished Fellow of the ISSA, and a member of the Cyber Security Hall of Fame — the only person to ever hold all these distinctions. In 2012 he was named as one of Purdue’s inaugural Morrill Professors — the university’s highest award for the combination of scholarship, teaching, and service. He is a recipient of the National Computer Security Systems Award, a IFIP Kristian Beckman Award, a CRA Distinguished Service Award, an ACM President’s Award, and the (ISC)^2 Harold F. Tipton Award — among others. Among many other activities he is the immediate past-chair of the Public Policy Council of ACM (USACM), and is editor-in-chief of the journal Computers & Security.

Vanessa Teague, Ph.D. is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Computing and Information Systems at at The University of Melbourne. She did her Bachelor’s Degree at The University of Melbourne and her Ph.D. in cryptography and game theory at Stanford University. Her main research interest is in electronic voting, with a focus on cryptographic schemes for end-to-end verifiable elections and a special interest in complex voting schemes such as IRV and STV. She was a major contributor to the Victorian Electoral Commission’s end-to-end verifiable electronic voting project, the first of its kind to run at a state level anywhere in the world. She has been part of two separate research teams that found serious security vulnerabilities in the NSW iVote Internet voting system (first in 2015 and again in Western Australia in 2017). Her other work includes the development of rigorous and efficient auditing methods for complex voting schemes.

Michael Ubell has retired from a 40 year career developing database and transaction management systems. Ubell began his career working on the original Ingres project at the University of California. He has served in engineering and management roles at Britton Lee, Digital Equipment Corporation, Illustra, Informix, Oracle and Cloudera. Currently he volunteers on open data and gun violence prevention projects in Oakland California. He is currently on the leadership team of the OpenOakland Brigade of Code for America. He holds a BA in Mathematics and Computer Science from Hampshire College and a MA in Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley.

John P. Wack is a voting systems researcher and standards developer, formerly at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in the area of elections standards and Internet security. He has chaired standards groups within IEEE and NIST and is managing the standardization of a common data format for election systems, working in conjunction with election officials, manufacturers, and others in the election community. He is also an assessor for the National Voluntary Laboratory Accreditation Program (NVLAP) and inspects voting system test laboratories regularly to check compliance with requirements and standards. With the EAC’s TGDC, he has managed the development of the 2007 VVSG Recommendations to the EAC and the 2005 VVSG, and continues to develop VVSG requirements and test methods. Prior to working in elections, he authored and managed a number of IT and network security guidance and assistance activities for NIST.

His goals in the elections area are to make voting systems easier to manage and audit, easier to use accurately by voters, and more transparent to understand and test. Prior to working for NIST, Mr. Wack worked in the private sector in digital communications. He holds a BA in History from Wheeling Jesuit University and an MS in Computer Science from West Virginia University. His personal pursuits include furniture making, playing classical guitar, and hiking with his wife and their dogs.

Nancy Wallace is a Maryland Voting Activist affiliated with the Campaign for Verifiable Voting in Maryland. Background: Experienced lobbyist and volunteer organizer. Wallace has worked for Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC), as supervisor of a team of three software testers handling 12 of the 13 national computer systems which support case adjudication by the US Citizenship and Immigration Service. She is also in charge of process compliance, or what the Program Manual terms quality control, for the software development and testing.

Dan Wallach is a professor in the Department of Computer Science and a Rice Scholar at the Baker Institute for Public Policy at Rice University in Houston, Texas. His research considers a variety of different computer security topics, ranging from web browsers and servers through electronic voting technologies and smartphones.

Wayne Williams served as Colorado Secretary of State from 2015 to 2019. As Secretary of State, Williams adopted new voting standards requiring voter-verifiable paper ballots and implemented the nation’s first full risk limiting audit. Williams’ election security efforts were recognized nationally by both Fox News and The Washington Post who called Colorado “the safest state to cast a vote.” Under Williams’ leadership Colorado also led the nation in voter registration and turnout. He served for three years on the Executive Committee of the National Association of Secretaries of State.

Prior to serving as Secretary of State, Williams served as El Paso County Clerk & Recorder, where he successfully ran elections in Colorado’s most populous county. Williams graduated magna cum laude from Brigham Young University (B.A., Political Science, 1986), received his law degree from the University of Virginia (J.D. 1989), and is a Certified Elections/Registration Administrator. Williams is a Harry S Truman Scholar. He also received the Medallion Award from the National Association of Secretaries of State for his efforts in protecting the right to vote during the fire-ravaged primary election in 2012.