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Tova Wang

 

Vice President for Research

 

Tova Andrea Wang, a nationally known expert on election reform and political participation, is Vice President of Research at Common Cause where she focuses on voting rights, campaign finance and media reform.

 

Prior to joining Common Cause she was Democracy Fellow at The Century Foundation. She is co-author of the Report on Voter Fraud and Voter Intimidation for the United States Election Assistance Commission, a federal agency, which received international and national press attention. 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, of which The Century Foundation was a co-sponsor.

 

She has frequently appeared on national radio and television, including C-Span’s Washington Journal, MSNBC, NBC, and NPR. She has been a featured speaker at a number of national election reform conferences and forums and provided her expertise to members of Congress and state legislators.


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.