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As a highly technical, quality focused, data science and analytics service, Voting Rights Code (VRC) helps municipalities and civil rights organizations understand and pinpoint inequities in their local voting infrastructure
Our academically peer reviewed tools are not commonly found in the vast majority of project toolboxes. Our analysis is tailor made to meet the unique constraints and legal requirements faced by individual local elections boards.
VRC is currently a DC based LLC.
Our Founder
Our Founder
Susama Agarwala
Susama Agarwala
Susama Agarwala is a mathematician (with postdoctoral positions at Oxford and faculty positions at Caltech and US Naval Academy, among others) turned data scientist with six years of experience in government contracting and the progressive data space. She has a professional and personal history of tackling questions of race and equity head on in her work and professional communities, including giving talks on systemic discrimination on hiring and retention in academia, teaching courses on algorithmic bias (course listing, course website), working with the Social Security Administration to understand how race and income of the communities served are related to their ability to deliver services, and working with progressive data groups to understand how race is correlated with access to the democratic process.
In her day job, she is an Associate Research Director for Trusted AI, leading a group of AI researchers to build accountable and reliable AI solutions for the US government. By nights and weekends, she is the Founder and CEO of Voting Rights Code, building tools to measure and improve inequities in access to our democracy.
Our Story
Our Story
Voting Rights Code started in 2023 as an all volunteer organization of highly technical experts and group of friends who woke up one day thinking "If not us, then who?"
In 2024, VRC provided analysis services to over 20 counties for four different municipal and civil rights organizations completely free of charge. Our goal is to improve democratic access and increase civic engagement for marginalized communities, not profit out of unearthing challenges that need to be addressed.
In order to continue this work, 2025 is a year of restructuring and reorganizing with the intent to become self-sustainable and provide living wages for the contractors supporting our projects. We are asking that our partners make a contribution for our services. We are also seeking funding from other sources aligned with our mission, work, and services.
Past Volunteers
Past Volunteers
A professor of mathematics at the United States Naval Academy and the author of our model.
(cofounder)
(cofounder)
A full stack engineer and CTO with over 2 decades of experience architecting, managing and maintaining scientific software,
A statistician is data scientist at Meta by day. Political scientist providing tech solutions to progressive causes by night.
A newly minted software engineer, with a background in electronics, machine learning and seamless integration of hardware and software technologies.
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