Executive DirectorInstitute for Responsive Government
Sam Oliker-Friedland is the executive director of the Institute for Responsive Government, which is a nonpartisan nonprofit committed to helping policy makers find solutions that make government more efficient, accessible, and responsive to the needs of real human beings.
Prior to joining the Institute for Responsive Government, Sam was a voting rights litigator at the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division under both the Obama and Trump administrations. Prior to that, he worked on election administration law and data in the nonprofit sector. Sam graduated from Brown University with a degree in Linguistics and has a J.D. from Yale Law School. He’s a Milwaukee native and lives in Chicago, IL.