Ruth Bernstein
President & CEO- EMC Research Inc.
Ruth Bernstein is President and CEO at EMC Research, a national women-owned polling and opinion research firm. She has been polling on a wide variety of political, policy and social marketing projects for almost three decades. She is especially proud her work helping to elect women and people of color to elected office and securing voter approval for education, transportation, affordable housing and environmental protection.
Seema Mehta
Political Writer- LA Times
Seema Mehta is a political writer for the Los Angeles Times who covered the 2020 presidential campaign. She was a Knight-Wallace fellow at the University of Michigan for the 2018-19 academic year studying automation and AI and their impacts on voters in the Midwest. She previously covered the 2016, 2012 and 2008 presidential campaigns, as well as multiple gubernatorial, Senate and mayoral races. A graduate of Syracuse University, the East Coast native swore when she joined The Times in 1998 that she would only spend a few years on the Left Coast. Many years, a husband, a house and a few cats later, she can’t imagine living somewhere she couldn’t golf year-round.
For the past 10 years, Mitchell has also served as Vice President of the bi-partisan Political Data Inc where he works with both political parties, campaigns, nonprofits and universities, with a specialty in polling and survey data. Mitchell earned his Associates Degree from Orange Coast College, an Undergraduate from American University and Masters in Public Policy from USC.
Paul Mitchell
Vice President- Political Data, Inc.
Paul is Vice President of Political Data Inc, a bipartisan voter data firm based in California, and owner of Redistricting Partners.
Mitchell has conducted the redistricting for more than 100 cities, school boards and community college districts, including the Los Angeles Unified School District, and most recently, the Cities of Santa Ana, Davis and Napa. The firm’s work on racially polarized voting analysis and demographics has aided dozens of agencies as they navigate the California and Federal Voting Rights Acts.
Mitchell also works with nonprofit organizations, such as the Irvine Foundation, the American Civil Liberties Union, the Advancement Project, and others in building community engagement and working throughout California on elections and voting issues.
Mitchell has been regularly cited in the media as an expert on elections and redistricting, including as the subject of a CNN Presents special on the decennial redistricting process, being interviewed on the PBS News Hour election coverage in 2020, participating in the 538 Podcast series on redistricting reform, and as a regular analyst on California-based network TV election coverage.
For the past 10 years, Mitchell has also served as Vice President of the bi-partisan Political Data Inc where he works with both political parties, campaigns, nonprofits and universities, with a specialty in polling and survey data. Mitchell earned his Associates Degree from Orange Coast College, an Undergraduate from American University and Masters in Public Policy from USC.
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