Tova Wang

Tova Andrea Wang is a nationally known expert on election reform and political participation in the United States and internationally.

Wang is the Director of Research Projects in Democratic Practice at the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation. She was most recently Director of Policy and Research at the Center for Secure and Modern Elections, where she worked on voter registration reform and oversaw and conducted research on how to develop transformative strategies for increasing political participation among marginalized groups. She’s been working on improving democracy since the 2000 presidential election, including several years as a Senior Democracy Fellow at Demos. Tova has focused on issues related to greater political inclusion in the United States, including major studies on increasing voter participation rates among low-income people, communities of color, naturalized immigrants, women, and Native Americans. Her critically acclaimed book, The Politics of Voter Suppression: Defending and Expanding Americans’ Right to Vote, was published in 2012 by Cornell University Press. She has also consulted for international organizations on voting rights, election reform, and constitutional reform in countries around the world for many years.

She was the Executive Director of The Century Foundation's Post-2004 Election Reform Working Group, comprised of many of the preeminent election law scholars in the country. In 2001, she was staff person to the National Commission on Federal Election Reform, co-chaired by former Presidents Carter and Ford.

She is the author of numerous election reform reports. Her commentary on this subject has appeared in numerous print media outlets and she has frequently appeared on national radio and television, including NBC’s the Today Show, ABC Nightly News, ABC Good Morning America, CBS Morning News, CNN, C-Span’s Washington Journal, MSNBC, CBS Evening News, and NPR.

She has been a featured speaker at a number of national election reform conferences and forums and has provided her expertise to members of Congress and state legislators, as well as advocates and legislators from around the world. Ms. Wang is an attorney and 1996 graduate of New York University School of Law, and a magna cum laude graduate of Barnard College of Columbia University.

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