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

Maeve Ward
Senior Advisor, Grow Progress

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