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Election SOS and the American Press Institute are partnering to provide a Trusted Elections Expert Network. This database is designed for you to quickly find vetted, non-partisan diverse election experts across a variety of topics to call on for sources and for support. The searchable directory is sorted by location, expertise, election topic, and language.
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Prabha Sankaranarayan
President and CEO / Mediators Beyond Borders International
Quentin Turner
Executive Director / Common Cause Michigan
Quinn Raymond
Co-Founder / Vote Shield & Protect Democracy
R. Michael Alvarez
Professor of Political and Computational Social Science / California Institute of Technology, Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project
Rachael Cobb
Chair and Associate Professor, Political Science & Legal Studies Department / Suffolk University
Rachel Goodman
Counsel / Protect Democracy
Rachel Homer
Chief of Staff / Chief of Staff of the U.S. Department of Education's Office of the General Counsel
Rachel Ivey Velázquez Bernhard
Associate Professor in Quantitative Political Science Research Methods / University of Oxford, Nuffield College
Rashad Gibson
Field and Mobilization Director / North Carolina League of Conservation Voters
Rashad Robinson
President / Color for Change
Ray Block
Associate Professor of Political Science and African American Studies / Pennsylvania State University
Rebecca Green
Associate Professor of Law and Co-Director / The Election Law Program at William & Mary
This list is informed by Hearken ElectionSOS and API’s Trusted Elections Network. The American Press Institute’s Trusted Elections Network was a 2020 initiative comprised of a separate private network that connected both journalists and experts to better understand and cover elections, consider strategies for addressing persistent misinformation challenges, and provided journalists with relevant expertise in real-time to strengthen election coverage this year.
Election SOS has expanded this network since 2020, adding 50+ more experts in 2022.
Election SOS’ Trusted Election Experts are selected by the Election SOS outreach team. We invite scholars, advocates, attorneys, journalists, and anyone who has a verifiable body of work behind their opinions, to join the network. The experts are identified by their relevant expertise, their availability, and their commitment to benefitting the public good. No compensation is exchanged for the experts’ time, and it is up to the individual to respond to requests as they are able. The team finds our trusted experts through various means including their professional and personal networks, following the news, researching university and think tank websites, and recommendations from reliable sources. We look for people and organizations that demonstrate accountability and transparency in their research, meet our program objective to represent a variety of voices, and rely on our own journalistic instincts when vetting them as trustworthy.
If you or someone you know want to contribute your expertise to the Election SOS Trusted Election Expert Network please contact info@electionsos.org