Advisory Board
Voter Action currently works with a fiscal sponsor, the International Humanities Center. While the IHC has its own board of directors, Voter Action relies on an advisory board of prominent individuals in the field. Voter Action has also assembled a broad legal team with which it partners to carry out the work of the Legal Advocacy Project.
Dr. Alexander Keyssar is a Stirling Professor of History and Social Policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. His 1986 book, Out of Work: the First Century of Unemployment in Massachusetts, was awarded several scholarly prizes, including the Frederick Jackson Turner Award of the Organization of American Historians; it was also named a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times. In 2000, he published The Right to Vote: the Contested History of Democracy in the United States, which received the Beveridge Prize from the American Historical Association and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the LA Times Book Award, and the Francis Parkman Prize. He is a co-author of Inventing America: a History of the United States and has written widely on public policy issues in the popular press. Dr. Keyssar provides Voter Action's legal and research teams with context on the history of elections in the United States. Dr. Keyssar has submitted valuable written testimony for our legal cases and has acted as an advisor.
Dr. David Dill is a Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University. He has authored over 100 academic publications on formal verification of systems, and is listed as a highly cited author by ISI. He was made a Fellow of the Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineers (IEEE) for his contributions to verification of systems. He has testified before the Carter-Baker Commission on Federal Election Reform, the U.S. Senate Rules and Administration Committee, and the U.S. Election Assistance Commission. Dr. Dill has advised and provided key testimony to Voter Action for many of our legal cases such as those in New Mexico, Pennsylvania and Florida.
Dr. Avi Rubin is a Professor of Computer Science and Technical Director of the Information Security Institute, Johns Hopkins University. Rubin is founder of the NSF’s ACCURATE project, a center for Correct, Usable, Reliable, Auditable and Transparent Elections. Rubin is author of several books including Brave New Ballot, Firewalls and Internet Security, White-Hat Security Arsenal and Web Security Sourcebook. He is also a co-founder of Independent Security Evaluators (securityevaluators.com), a security consulting firm. Dr. Rubin has advised and provided key testimony to Voter Action for many of our legal cases such as those in California, Colorado, Pennsylvania and Florida.
Dolores Huerta serves as a Labor leader, organizer and social activist. Huerta is recognized as one of the country’s finest organizers and a fearless advocate for immigrant worker’s rights. She was instrumental in passage of legislation allowing citizens the right to vote in Spanish, and the right of individuals to take the drivers license examination in their native language. She served as Secretary Treasurer of AFL-CIO's Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee and co-Founder and first Vice President of the United Farm Workers union. Ms. Huerta is President of the Delores Huerta Foundation whose work, in addition to advancing equal access for women, laborers and youth, promotes civic participation. She is also the recipient of the Consumers’ Union Trumpeter’s Award. In 1998 she was one of the three Ms. Magazine’s “Women of the Year”, and the Ladies Home Journal’s “100 Most Important Women of the 20th Century”. In 1998 Dolores received the United States Presidential Eleanor D. Roosevelt Human Rights Award from President Clinton. She has worked tirelessly to encourage people to vote in the past two presidential elections. Dolores helps Voter Action with fundraising and outreach efforts and mentors the organization regarding grassroots organizing skills.
Peter Coyote is an actor and dedicated civic justice and fair elections advocate. He served as an elected President of the California Arts Board. He is a board member of Baykeepers, a proactive organization which tracks pollution and polluters in the San Francisco Bay. He is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, The Screen Actor's Guild, American Federation of Radio and Television Artists, Actor's Equity, and The Player's Club, a professional club for performers and artists in New York City. In 1997, he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention which he also covered for Mother Jones Magazine. Peter has been instrumental in helping Voter Action get off the ground with fundraising efforts and has contributed his time and name to fundraising and outreach efforts on behalf of the organization.
