Congressional Redistricting 101: It’s All About the Numbers … Or Is It?
Vernon C. Grigg III and Sarah Cannon
Sarah Cannon is an associate professor in the department of mathematical sciences at Claremont McKenna College. Her research focuses on mathematical foundations of Markov chains and random sampling algorithms for problems from discrete geometry, most recently with connections to statistical physics and the mathematics of redistricting.
From 2018-2019, Cannon was an NSF Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, working with Alistair Sinclair. In 2018, she completed her Ph.D. in algorithms, combinatorics, and optimization at Georgia Tech. Her graduate studies were supported by an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, a Simons Award for Graduate Students in Theoretical Computer Science, and a Clare Boothe Luce Outstanding Graduate Fellowship.
Cannon completed an M.Sc. in Mathematics and the Foundations of Computer Science at the University of Oxford in 2013 and a B.A. in Mathematics at Tufts University in 2012.
Vernon C. Grigg III is the executive director of the Kravis Lab for Civic Leadership and brings to CMC deep experience as a trial lawyer, political actor, and educator. Holding degrees from Yale Law School, the London School of Economics, and the University of Michigan, Grigg has served as CEO & President of Up with People, an international educational nonprofit; as a litigator with clients ranging from government officials to Fortune 100 companies; and as a Managing Assistant District Attorney for the City and County of San Francisco. He founded and led the Center for Electoral Equity, a nonprofit organization dedicated to voting issues, served on the Independent Electoral Commission of South Africa and clerked for the Supreme Court of Israel. He has taught at Golden Gate University School of Law and is a certified Intergroup Dialogue Leader.
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