Evan B. Smith is a second year Masters candidate in Democracy and Governance at Georgetown University and President of the Forum for the Study of Democracy and Autocracy, the student association for the D&G Masters program. His interests include elections and election administration, the international democracy promotion community, and issues of transitional justice and postconflict reconstruction.

For the past three years, Evan has served as an election administrator at the local and state levels, where he worked on issues relating to voting technology, election law, pollworker training and recruitment, voter information management, and public relations. He is currently employed by the Pew Center on the States as a program assistant at electionline.org, a nonpartisan, non-advocacy website providing up-to-the-minute news and analysis on election administration and reform.

Evan received his BA in 2005 from the University of Virginia, where he studied Foreign Affairs and History, focusing on political transitions, elections and voting, and Japanese history.

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