Westminster Town Hall Forum

Gerrymandering is expanding and making news from coast to coast. How will it affect our elections? Sam Wang – one of the nation’s leading experts on redistricting, representation, and election reform – will address gerrymandering and share his data-driven approach to building and repairing an American democracy that represents all. Wang is founder and director of the Princeton Gerrymandering Project and the Electoral Innovation Lab and a professor of neuroscience at Princeton University. He has contributed to election law cases in North Carolina, Maine, and New Jersey, and his research and commentary have appeared in the New York Times and Washington Post. His analysis has been cited by Chief Justice John Roberts in U.S. Supreme Court opinions. Wang also is co-author of two popular books: Welcome to Your Brain: Why You Lose Your Car Keys But Never Forget How to Drive and Other Puzzles of Everyday Life and Welcome to Your Child’s Brain: How the Mind Grows from Conception to College. He was originally traine