Milan de Vries (he/him)
Milan de Vries has spent the last decade applying innovative data science and technology to political and civic organizing. He is originally a molecular biologist with a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Since 2010 he has been involved in grassroots campaigns in support of immigration, civil rights, diplomacy, and economic fairness, as well as in support of progressive candidates for election. Milan spent eight years as the Director of Analytics at MoveOn. Since leaving MoveOn, Milan has worked as an independent political data consultant and currently holds an appointment as an Associate Research Scholar at Johns Hopkins University where he studies the civic landscapes that shape American democracy.