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Kristin Eberhard

Kristin Eberhard is a fellow with Sightline Institute and Senior Director of State & Local Policy for Rewiring America, following work as Director of Climate Policy at the Niskanen Center. She previously worked for Sightline Institute for seven years as Director of its Democracy and its Climate and Energy programs. Kristin is the author of Becoming a Democracy: How We Can Fix the Electoral College, Gerrymandering, and Our Elections. She researches, writes about, and speaks about climate change policy and democracy reform. Prior to Sightline, Kristin worked at the Natural Resources Defense Council, leading its California climate work in San Francisco, then moving to its Southern California office to help the largest municipally owned utility in the country get off coal and onto energy efficiency and renewables. Kristin also taught courses on climate change and energy law at Stanford Law School and UCLA School of Law. She earned a BA from Stanford, her law degree from Duke University, and a Master of Environmental Management from Duke’s Nicholas School of the Environment. She currently lives in Washington, DC. For a list of her work with Sightline, click here and follow her on Twitter: @KristinEberhard.

Kristin Eberhard

Kristin Eberhard

Latest articles

What Washington, DC, Can Learn from the Other Washington about Climate Policy

Editor’s note: This article was originally published by the Niskanen Center, authored by Kristin Eberhard, the Center’s Director of Climate ...
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Our Maps Shouldn’t Lie About Our Votes

Takeaways Many election-night maps color entire states or counties red or blue, failing to represent (or intentionally encouraging false understandings ...
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Proportional Representation Helps Candidates, Too

This article is part of the series Fairer Elections in Portland Takeaways Proportional representation may cut campaign costs and reduce ...
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When Elections Are Decided in the May Primary, Many Portlanders Don’t Have a voice in City Hall

This article is part of the series Fairer Elections in Portland Takeaways More voters would have a voice if Portland ...
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In Some Cities, Most Voters Put Someone They Want on City Council—But Not Portland

This article is part of the series Fairer Elections in Portland Takeaways In several American cities, more voters have a ...
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Voters in Southwest Portland Neighborhoods Have More Influence on City Council Elections than Those East of 82nd Avenue

This article is part of the series Fairer Elections in Portland Takeaways The city’s winner-take-all elections lock certain voters out ...
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Portland: Why Risk Gerrymandering When You Could Go Proportional?

This article is part of the series Fairer Elections in Portland Takeaways Districting would lead to headaches for Portland. Portland ...
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Want to Give Portlanders of Color a Voice on City Council? Districts Won’t Help

This article is part of the series Fairer Elections in Portland Takeaways A nationally-renowned redistricting group found that it is ...
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Everything You Wanted to Know about Portland Charter Review but Were Afraid to Ask

This article is part of the series Fairer Elections in Portland Takeaways Portlanders have an opportunity to change the way ...
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Some Good News on State Voting Rights Bills

Takeaways When it comes to key policies making it easier and more secure to vote from home, or early, or ...
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Washington State Joins the Movement to Honor Voting Rights for All Community Members

Takeaways Washington will join other states in restoring voting rights to citizens when they are released from prison. The state ...
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Automatic Voter Registration Continues to Kick Ass in Oregon

Takeaways Oregon was the first state to implement Automatic Voter Registration (AVR) and it is going great! Nearly all eligible ...
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