The Pioneer’s Perspective: Three Decades of Protecting the California Voter with Kim Alexander

Please join us on Wednesday, May 6, 2026 at 11:00 am Pacific for the next episode of Election Science Office Hours, a webinar series presented by the Linde Center for Science, Society, and Policy and moderated by R. Michael Alvarez, PhD, Flintridge Foundation Professor of Political and Computational Social Science at Caltech and Co-Director, Linde Center for Science, Society, and Policy (LCSSP).

During this episode of Election Science Office Hours, Professor Alvarez’s guest will be Kim Alexander, President and Founder of the California Voter Foundation, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization she re-founded in 1994 to advance the responsible use of technology in the democratic process and improve the voting process to better serve the needs and interests of voters.

Professor Alvarez and Ms. Alexander will discuss her long career as a nonpartisan advocate and her specific contributions to California’s voting landscape, the evolution of the "voter experience" in California (and beyond) from the early days of the internet to the complex, multi-channel systems used in 2026 - and what the future may hold.

Ms. Alexander has led a number of programs and projects on behalf of CVF since 1994, successfully advancing electronic filing and internet disclosure of campaign finance data in California and nationwide. She has edited CVF's California Voter Guide since 1994, providing California voters with nonpartisan election information and has also worked to expand public access to online services such as voter status lookup tools and online voter registration.

Register in advance for this meeting: https://caltech.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_GTq1l-cuQ-aHcLCIlRbJ-A#/registration.

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For more information, please contact Sabrina Hameister by phone at 626-395-4228 or by email at sboschet@caltech.edu.