Election Science Office Hours, a webinar series presented by the Caltech 2024 Election Integrity Project

Please join us on Wednesday, December 11, 2024 at 11:00 am Pacific for the next installment of Election Science Office Hours, a webinar series presented by the Caltech 2024 Election Integrity Project 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).

In this episode of Election Science Office Hours, Professor Alvarez's guest will be Tommy Gong, Deputy County Clerk-Recorder in Contra County, California. Tommy will share the programs Contra Costa put into place for the 2024 election in an effort to increase public trust and discuss how they worked - and most importantly, what is most applicable to future elections.

Tommy Gong has spent over two decades in the field of election administration. Tommy currently serves as the Deputy County Clerk-Recorder for Contra Costa County, located in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he has served since 2021. Tommy previously served as the elected County Clerk-Recorder for San Luis Obispo County and started his career in Stanislaus County, both in California. Tommy is an advisory board member for the Election Official Legal Defense Network, a Board Director for the California Voter Foundation, and served on the executive committee of the California Association of Clerks and Election Officials.

Tommy led the effort to form the Coalition of Bay Area Election Officials for neighboring counties to join forces and collaborate on building public trust in elections in shared media markets. The Coalition earned the prestigious Democracy Award for best practice of 2022 from the National Association of Elections Officials (the Election Center) and a "Clearie" award in 2023 for Distinguished Voter Education and Communication Initiatives by the Elections Assistance Commission. Earning his BA degree at the University of California at Berkeley and an MBA at San Francisco State University, Tommy was among the first graduates of the California Professional Election Administrator Credential in 2005, and completed the national Certified Election Registration Administrator (CERA) certification program at the Election Center in 2021.

Register in advance for this meeting: https://caltech.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_KS-Pxb2iTmCZ4_fyCfi62w

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For more information on the Caltech 2024 Election Integrity Project, please visit our website at https://www.protectingtheelection.us/ or email us at [email protected].