LEADERSHIP & STAFF
founder-directors
Elisabeth
Jacobs
Jal Mehta
staff
Ben
Ansell
Lydia
Bean
Jane
Gingrich
David
J. Harding
Matissa
Hollister
Joel
Horwich
Tomás
Roberto
Jiménez
Matthew
Kaliner
Michal
Kurlaender
Jason
Lakin
Therese
Leung
Elizabeth
Oltmans
Ananat
Judy
Scott-Clayton
Patrick
Sharkey
Adam
Thomas
Vesla
Mae Weaver
Christopher
Wimer
Scott
Winship
Vesla Mae Weaver is a Ph.D. candidate in the Government Department at Harvard University and a Doctoral Fellow in the Multidisciplinary Program in Inequality and Social Policy. Broadly interested in the effects of voting barriers on electoral participation, Vesla has written on topics ranging from felony disenfranchisement to the race-based development of modern sentencing policies to the disparate effect of spoiled ballots in minority communities (as part of ongoing research for the Harvard Civil Rights Project). Vesla is a Ford Foundation Fellow and received a National Science Foundation fellowship for her experimental work on race and voting preferences. Her most recent endeavor is a project on skin color and multiracialism and their implications for the fluidity of racial classification. Vesla has combined advocacy work with her academic pursuits, with stints at the Southern Poverty Law Center, the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, the Democratic National Committee, and several political campaigns.