Past Event
Seminar

AI Cyber Lunch: Pamela Smith on "Justified Confidence: The Role of Trust in Elections"

Open to the Public

Please join the Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program for an AI Cyber Lunch Seminar featuring Pamela Smith, President and CEO of Verified Voting. Smith will give a talk entitled "Justified Confidence: The Role of Trust in Elections."

Q&A to follow. Buffet-style lunch will be served.

Registration: No RSVP is required for in-person attendance. Room capacity is limited and seating will be on a first come, first served basis. Members of the public are welcome to attend virtually via Zoom. Virtual attendees should register using the button below; upon registering, attendees will receive a confirmation email with a Zoom link. 

Recording: Please be advised that this seminar will not be recorded.

Accessibility: To request accommodations or for questions about access, please contact Liz Hanlon (ehanlon@hks.harvard.edu) in advance of the session.

Pamela Smith

Speaker

Speaker

Pamela Smith, the President & CEO of Verified Voting, plays a national leadership role in safeguarding elections and building working alliances between advocates, election officials, and other stakeholders. Pam joined Verified Voting in 2004, serving as President from 2007-2017 and most recently as a Senior Advisor to the organization. She is a member of the National Task Force on Election Crises, a diverse cross-partisan group of more than 50 experts whose mission is to prevent and mitigate a range of election crises by calling for critical preventative reforms to our election systems. Pam developed and shepherded an extensive trusted information resource on election equipment and the regulations governing its use at the federal level and across the 50 states. She provides information and public testimony on election security issues at federal and state levels throughout the U.S., including to the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on House Administration. Pam is the author of and contributor to numerous key reports and issue briefs on protection of secret ballots, principles of post-election audits, state voting readiness, voting system testing and certification, accessible ballot marking principles, and other matters relating to election administration and verification. Prior to her work in elections, she was a nonprofit executive for a Hispanic educational organization working on first language literacy and adult learning, and a small business and marketing consultant.