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KATHAY FENG Common Cause
Kathay Feng is Common Cause’s national redistricting director and California Common
Cause’s executive director. Feng spearheaded two successful initiative campaigns to create
an independent commission to redistrict state and congressional districts in California.
The Citizens Redistricting Commission attracted 30,000 applicants, took testimony from
20,000 people, and drew maps for California congressional and state districts. Feng also led
efforts to successfully pass online voter registration and same-day registration in California.
In its first month of implementation in 2012, online voter registration brought in 800,000
new voters, a third of whom were under the age of 25. Since 2006, she has helped anchor
California’s Election Protection efforts. In Los Angeles, she helped win improvements to the
matching funds system to incentivize candidate interaction with small donors and regular
voters. Prior to Common Cause, Feng directed the Voting Rights and Hate Crimes Unit at
Asian Americans Advancing Justice.

GREG MOORE NAACP National Voter Fund
Gregory T. Moore is the executive director of the NAACP National Voter Fund (NVF)
where he is responsible for the overall coordination of national programs designed to
promote voter rights, election reform, and issues critical to the NAACP. Since 2002 NVF’s
efforts have registered over 500,000 voters nationwide. He is also president of GTM
Consulting Services, a political consulting firm formed in 1998 that specializes in program
development, public policy analysis, issue advocacy, and election services. From 2013 to 2015
Moore served as the senior strategist for the Democracy Initiative, which seeks to halt the
corrupting influence of corporate money in politics and prevent the systemic manipulation
and suppression of voters. Moore served five years as the legislative director (‘93-94) and
chief of staff for the Honorable John Conyers, Jr., the ranking member of the U.S. House
Judiciary Committee and Dean of the Congressional Black Caucus.

SPENCER OVERTON Joint Center for Political and
Economic Studies
Spencer Overton is president of the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies.
He is also a tenured professor of law at George Washington University and the author
of the book Stealing Democracy: The New Politics of Voter Suppression. Overton served as
government reform policy chair for the 2008 Obama campaign and as principal deputy
assistant attorney general of legal policy at the Department of Justice at the beginning of
the Obama Administration. He currently serves on the President’s Advisory Commission
on Educational Excellence for African Americans, and as the national chair of public policy
for the nation’s oldest African American fraternity, Sigma Pi Phi (the Boulé). He has served
on several nonprofit boards, including Common Cause, Demos, the Center for Responsive
Politics, and the American Constitution Society. Overton is an honors graduate of both
Hampton University and Harvard Law School, and clerked for U.S. Court of Appeals Judge
Damon J. Keith.

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