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Laura Royden

Redistricting researcher, Brennan Center for Justice

Laura Royden is a redistricting researcher in the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center. She focuses on quantitative approaches to studying and analyzing redistricting. Previously, she was a research assistant for Data-Smart City Solutions at the Harvard Kennedy School's Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation.

Latest Columns

Politics

Ranking Texas gerrymanders

By Michael Li and Laura Royden, Aug. 11, 2017

In a state where voting is increasingly polarized by race, racial and partisan bias are often joined at the hip. Fixing one generally also will fix the other.