A group of friends with highly techinical backgrounds who woke up one day thinking "If not us, then who?"
We are an all volunteer organization working on this project in the hours between earning our living, parenting, taking care of our pets and sleeping.
- Susama Agarwala is currently a data scientist who dislikes working with people who just care sooo much. Since she is not brave enough (read too financially conservative) to start her own buisiness, she donates code to people whose bravery she admires. In her spare time, she trains her dog, publishes mathematical physics papers and worries about how to raise her son to be proud of his heritage in the country he is inheriting.
- Ben Mainwaring is a statistician and data scientist with a background in political and social research. He's worked on progressive issue advocacy and electoral campaigns at YouGov and Priorities USA, as well as working on monitoring & evaluation for international development. By day, he's working on consumer sentiment measurement and survey methodology at Meta. By night, he's working to make the world a slightly better and more just place, one slow grind at a time.
- Daphne Skipper is an erstwhile Georgian and a mathematics professor at the US Naval Academy. The model behind our equitable poll placement tool is her work.
- Chad Rosenberg is a game designer, data engineer, CTO and project manager. He started his career managing academic code bases for labs that became startups.
Write code and run analysis for civil liberties advocacy organizations to help make the US voting system a little bit more fair.
Our main equitable poll placement tool measures demographic inequities for access to polls and reccommends new constellations (legally compliant with state and local laws) of locations to improve access.
What we do NOT do
We are not a group of technitions who think we know how to fix the system.
- The advocacy groups have been in the field for decades and have crucial degrees in law and the social sciences.
- They set the vision
- We are proud to be able to support them.
Current partner:
This last year, we've seen more demand for our tool than we could ever have imagined.
Which is BRILLIANT!
But we need more hands.
Check out our RFQ for a fundraiser.
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Visit our main repo to see our equitable poll placement tool. Make a pull request. Make a comment. If you want to get involved, create an issue or reach out to Amasus