Hi! I'm Samuel. I'm an election scientist. I work to improve and reform electoral institutions.
I have a PhD in Political Science and Scientific Computing and an MS in Math from the University of Michigan. I spent a few years hanging out in the tunnels of M.I.T., where I was the Research Director of the MIT Election Data and Science Lab. Now I'm the Research Director of GoodParty.org, where we help thousands of nonpartisan and independent candidates serve their communities.
I've worked on the data team of several reform-oriented or progressive parties and organizations, and I've written code to help administer the elections of large non-governmental entities. Before wandering away from academic political science, I studied the interaction of election rules and voter behaviour using novel empirical and computational methods.