About
The team behind Voting Rights Code.
Voting Rights Code brings together research, policy, and technical experience focused on election infrastructure.
Our Story
Research turned into public infrastructure.
Voting Rights Code was born out of a young submarine officer's desire to do more for his country nearly a decade after Shelby v. Holder. For his senior thesis at USNA, he worked with Mathematics Professor Daphne Skipper to develop an algorithm that measured changes to access to polling locations pre- and post-decision, and calculated how to make the situation better.
Daphne told Susama about this research project over lunch one day, who immediately saw its relevance to policymakers and election officials. Six months later, a group of friends made their first git commit together, launching an open-source project to reinforce our nation's democratic infrastructure.
Sometimes, the moment chooses you.
Current Contributors
Founder
Susama Agarwala
Mathematician-cum-data scientist with a penchant for uncovering and addressing systemic biases...whether algorithmic or human in origin.
Cofounder
Chad Rosenberg
A full stack engineer and CTO with over two decades of experience architecting, managing, and maintaining scientific software.
Contributor
Daniel Berger
Social scientist. Data scientist. Curmudgeon. Dad.
Past Contributors
Cofounder
Daphne Skipper
A professor of mathematics at the United States Naval Academy and the author of our model.
Contributor
Benjamin Mainwairing
A statistician and data scientist at Meta by day. Political scientist providing tech solutions to progressive causes by night.
Contributor
Soumyajit Pal
A newly minted software engineer with a background in electronics, machine learning, and seamless integration of hardware and software technologies.
Contributor
Rebekah Havrilla
Provider of curated, comprehensive guidance for companies advancing their programs with clarity.