Benjamin Lefkowitz Email & Phone Number

Washington, Dc, Us

Montgomery County, Maryland, United States

- Regularly scheduled Volunteer Activist work. - Door knocking, Phone Banking, and other persuasion conversations.

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

• Utilized past contacts through the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights to assist plaintiffs in settlement negotiations• Synthesized Census and election data to create and analyze potential maps or remedies for legal parties

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

• Finds and collects data to add to the Voting Rights Groups' Database.• Obtains, verifies, and standardizes tabular and geospatial data.• Conducts web research to accurately connect data to geospatial maps.• Analyzes redistricting plans produced by government bodies using Census and election data. Determines in this analysis if the plans are legal under the current State and Federal laws pertaining to Voting Rights. • Creates geospatial maps for use by the Lawyers' Committee's legal teams• Creates and maintains comprehensive data dictionaries.• Assists Legal teams create, draft, and accurately present data in Court Filings

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Important: Stopped updating at the level I expected of myself during 2022 with increasing responsibilities from the Lawyers' Committee For Civil Rights, and with Elon Musk's decisions making Twitter no longer a viable place for community growth. @OryxMaps is my Twitter home for election analysis, mostly using electoral maps. @OryxMaps is a portfolio of mapped, historical elections with frequent additions and, on election nights, live Twitter feed updates updates as I gather results. Past work can be downloaded at: https://elections-daily.com/maps-database/. Followers of @OryxMaps received, in their Twitter feed:• Links to my recent Decision Desk Headquarters Articles. • National and foreign election maps created in GIS (ArcGIS) and R ( https://www.r-project.org/about.html)• Analysis of election results at a granular level mostly using maps• Research into foreign elections. A typical foreign election requires data discovery using public sources often from non-English media and government publications• Previews of foreign elections in depth before the event

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

• Write weekly pieces that analyze the history, underlying data, and candidates in Toss Up races for the US House of Representatives.• Analyze past election data and utilize GIS mapping software to make it easily digestible to readers.• Accurately source articles.

Kensington, Maryland

• Develop and deliver member bulletins using MailChimp.• Communicate with local constituents and candidates to promote local rallies and other campaign events.• Execute events through logistic planning, event promotion, and staff collaboration

San Francisco Bay Area

• Analyzed and refined completed YouGov political polls against actual election results• Researched candidates and developed new polling questions for their campaigns• Coded polls in R ( https://www.r-project.org/about.html)• Quality-checked polling data• Drafted polling reports for clients• Scrubbed internal polling databases• Developed strong relationships with YouGov colleagues leading to seasonal, short-term jobs for YouGov during breaks in my undergraduate studies.

Nashua, New Hampshire, Boston, Massachusetts, And San Francisco, California

• Conducted high level communication to speak with primary voters via phone-banking • Developed and fostered relationships to meet and communicate with perspective primary voters on a regular basis

Bachelor’S Degree, Political Science Major And International Relations Minor, Junior

Activities and Societies: - Deans list Three Semesters and Counting - Constant Member and Community Organizer for the Reformed Community.

Gis, A

Took a two-month class - Fundamentals of GIS, taught by Nick Santos of UC Davis.