Spencer Overton

Spencer Overton is the Patricia Roberts Harris Research Professor of Law at George Washington University. He is the author of the book Stealing Democracy: The New Politics of Voter Suppression, the law review article “Overcoming Racial Harms to Democracy from Artificial Intelligence,” and several other publications on democracy and race. At the George Washington University Law School, he directs the Multiracial Democracy Project, which is currently working on research projects on the implications of artificial intelligence and alternative election systems for truly representative democracy in the United States. Overton held several senior leadership roles during the Obama campaign, transition, and administration. He currently serves on the board of the Leadership Conference Education Fund, the education and research arm of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights. He graduated with honors from both Hampton University and Harvard Law School.