SPLC Race & Redistricting Expert Project Application

The Southern Poverty Law Center’s Race and Redistricting Expert Project (RREP) is a nonpartisan training program designed to increase the number of voting rights experts prepared to provide their skills in voting rights litigation. By providing specialized education, training and experience over two to three years, the SPLC will increase the number of experts with both quantitative and qualitative skills to analyze complex legal and technical voting rights issues in voting rights cases before U.S. courts.

Those selected will be trained in mapping electoral districts or statistical analysis used to determine racially polarized voting (RPV) and metrics of partisan fairness, led by SPLC staff, Moon Duchin, and other current voting rights experts. All fields and backgrounds will be considered, but those with political science, spatial analysis, mathematics and statistics, GIS, geography, etc., and some background in redistricting or community-based mapping are highly encouraged.

Applications must be submitted by April 12, 2024. Send any questions to rrep@splcenter.org.

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Have you ever been involved in redistricting or advocating for fair election districts? *

Yes

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Briefly describe your commitment to justice, equity, diversity and inclusion *

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Why are you applying to participate in RREP? *

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What training area interests you? *

Mapping

Statistical Analysis

Are you able to fully participate in the program as outlined above and over a two- to three-year period? *

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What are your plans after completion of the training program? *

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Describe the effects gerrymandering (racial and partisan) has on minority communities? *

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