Marci Harris
EXPERTISE:
American Politics
EMAIL:
marci.harris@sjsu.edu
CONTACT INFORMATION:
San Jose State University
One Washington Square
San Jose, CA 95192-0119
OFFICE HOURS:
Coming Soon
EDUCATION:
J.D., University of Memphis
LL.M., American University Washington College of Law
BACKGROUND:
Marci Harris is CEO and cofounder of POPVOX, a nonpartisan platform for civic engagement
and governing, and Director of the nonprofit POPVOX Foundation. She developed the concept for POPVOX while working in Congress as counsel to the chairman of the House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee,
and worked on the House βTri-Comβ team that drafted the Affordable Care Act. She serves on the board of LaunchTN and was a fellow with the Harvard Kennedy School's
Ash Center for Democracy (2016), New America California (2017), and an affiliated
scholar with the CITRIS Policy Lab at UC Berkeley. In 2018, she led a team with the
People-Centered Internet that developed recovery recommendations for the government
of Puerto Rico. As a member of the American Political Science Associationβs Presidential
Task Force on Congressional Reform, she co-wrote βTech and Innovationβ recommendations
to the House Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress and has testified several
times before the committee. She holds a B.A. from Franklin University Lugano, Switzerland,
a J.D. from the University of Memphis and an LL.M. from the American University Washington
College of Law.
