Agenda & Speakers

Maeve Ward (moderator)
Senior Advisor, Grow Progress

Wes Anderson
Partner, OnMessage Public Strategies

Jane Rayburn
CO-Founder & Head of Polling and Qualitative, Workbench Strategy

David Wolfson
Managing Partner, DecipherAI; Lecturer, Columbia University SPS Political Analytics

Gregory J. Wawro, Ph.D. (moderator)
Program Director, Political Analytics; Professor of Political Science, Columbia University

Benjy Messner
Founder at New River Strategies; Lecturer, Columbia University SPS Political Analytics

Meg Schwenzfeier, Ph.D.
Senior Advisor, DCCC

Yamil Velez, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Political Science, Columbia University

Kabir Khanna, Ph.D.
Director, Election Analytics & Technical Systems, CBS News

Michael Schwam-Baird, Ph.D. (moderator)
Deputy Program Director, Political Analytics; Associate Professor of Professional Practice, Columbia University SPS

Eunji Kim, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Political Science, Columbia University

Jackie Burns
Communications and Political Strategist; GSAS ‘16

Erika Franklin Fowler, Ph.D.
Professor of Government, Wesleyan University; Co-Director, Wesleyan Media Project

Evan Roth Smith
Co-Founder, Slingshot Strategies

Doug Usher, Ph.D. (moderator)
Partner, Forbes Tate Partners; Strategic Advisor, Columbia University SPS Political Analytics

Andrew Gelman, Ph.D.
Higgins Professor of Statistics and Professor of Political Science, Columbia University

Joe Lenski
Executive Vice President; SSRS

John Phillips
CEO and Co-Founder, Aristotle