Jeremy Gruber
Jeremy Gruber is a lawyer, writer, and public policy advocate and is the Senior Vice President at Open Primaries.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][excessive citations] He is the former President and Executive Director of the Council for Responsible Genetics.[8] He has testified before the United States Congress on genetic privacy and discrimination issues. He was a leader of the successful effort to enact the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act as well as a number of state laws that preceded it[9] and led the successful campaign to roll back a controversial student genetic testing program at the University of California, Berkeley.[10] In 2011, Gruber led an effort to successfully enact CalGINA-a California law that extends genetic privacy and nondiscrimination protections into areas such as life, long term care, and disability insurance, mortgages, elections and other areas.[11]
Gruber is a founder and executive committee member of the Coalition for Genetic Fairness and the Pew Project on the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA).[12] He is an author of the books Genetic Explanations: Sense and Nonsense published by Harvard University Press,[13] Biotechnology in Our Lives published by Skyhorse Publishing,[14] and The GMO Deception by Skyhorse Publishing.[15] He is author of the reports The Myth of the Red State Policy Over Party in the Nebraska State Capitol[16] and The Next Great Migration: The Rise of Independent Voters in America.[17] He is also an author of the law review article Let All Voters Vote: Independents and the Expansion of Voting Rights in the United States.[18]
Gruber received his Juris Doctor (J.D.) from St. John's University School of Law School of Law and a B.A. in Politics from Brandeis University. Previously, he worked as the field director for ACLU's National Taskforce on Civil Liberties in the Workplace and then as legal director for the .[19][20]
References[]
- ^ Staff, "Open Primaries". Accessed August 2, 2015.
- ^ "Nonpartisan Elections in Florida? One Coalition is Trying to Make It Happen". 2017-04-18.
- ^ http://www.richmond.com/opinion/their-opinion/guest-columnists/rasoul-and-gruber-column-look-to-nebraska-people-over-partisanship/article_69882a31-5028-51f2-ae92-1d3807a8a214.html/
- ^ "What New Mexico politics can learn from Nebraska".
- ^ "Independent voters could make polling sites a nightmare". 2016-04-13.
- ^ "Effort in South Dakota Aims to Drop Parties".
- ^ "What's Not the Matter with Nebraska?". 18 January 2016.
- ^ Staff, "Council for Responsible Genetics". Accessed June 2, 2009.
- ^ http://www.councilforresponsiblegenetics.org/GeneWatch/GeneWatchPage.aspx?pageId=185&archive=yes/
- ^ https://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-08-12/uc-berkeley-backs-off-gene-test-program-for-students-blocked-by-state.html/
- ^ http://leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/sen/sb_0551-0600/sb_559_bill_20110906_chaptered.pdf /
- ^ "Coalition for Genetic Fairness".
- ^ "Genetic Explanations — Sheldon Krimsky, Jeremy Gruber".
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2014-03-28. Retrieved 2013-06-26.
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: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/openprimaries/pages/544/attachments/original/1443559603/Nebraska9.29.15.compressed.pdf?1443559603
- ^ "2020 Independents Report – Open Primaries Education Fund". Retrieved 2020-11-22.
- ^ Gruber, Jeremy; Hardy, Michael; Kresky, Harry (2019-01-01). "Let All Voters Vote: Independents and the Expansion of Voting Rights in the United States". Touro Law Review. 35 (2). ISSN 8756-7326.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-03-10. Retrieved 2009-06-04.
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: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ Glasner, Joanna (9 December 2005). "Worker Privacy: You Have None". Wired.
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