Hacking the Electoral Process: 21st Century Democracy & Technology

The New York Legal Hackers and the 21st Century Democracy & Technology team are co-sponsoring this panel and roundtable discussion on technology, the electoral process and the upcoming election. Drinks & eats provided.

Our panelists are:

Jonathan Askin joined Brooklyn Law School in 2008 with more than a decade of experience in the communications industry in both the public and private sectors. A sought-after expert in the field of Internet law, he played a key role in the tech task force of President Barack Obama’s election campaign. He has also served as president and general counsel for the Association for Local Telecommunications Services and was a senior attorney at the Federal Communications Commission. Professor Askin clerked for Chief Justice Robert N. Wilentz of the New Jersey Supreme Court and practiced as an associate at Davis Polk & Wardwell. He previously taught as an adjunct at Brooklyn Law School and serves as chair of VON Coalition, executive director of Video on the Net Alliance, and president of Global IP Alliance. At Rutgers Law School he was Notes and Comments Editor for the Rutgers Law Review.
@jaskin

Benjamin Kallos is the Executive Director of New Roosevelt where he uses his skill sets in law, politics, public policy and technology to help improve New York State's Constitution and laws through http://EffectiveNY.org (http://effectiveny.org/). His career includes serving Former Public Advocate Mark Green, Assembly Member Jonathan L. Bing, and the Open Government Foundation. He was recently recognized for his leadership by the New York Observer and City and State News for creating several civic websites including VoterSearch.org for voter education, OpenLegislation.org for legislative advocacy and transparency, andNYCPoliticalCalendar.com a crowd sourced political calendar. He is
currently a candidate to represent the Upper East Side and Roosevelt Island in the New York City Council, learn more at http://KallosForCouncil.com (http://kallosforcouncil.com/).
@kallos

Kathryn Peters is a co-founder and COO of TurboVote. Her belief in better democracy has taken her from campaign organizing in rural Missouri to a Master's in Public Policy at the Kennedy School of
Government to political rights monitoring in Afghanistan. Katy's previous experience includes the information management team for the United Nations Department of Safety and Security and the National Democratic Institute's Information and Communications Technology staff. In 2011, Katy was honored as one of Forbes magazine's "30 Under 30" in the field of law and policy.
@kathrynepeters