Scott W. Allard

Director of the Washington State Election Database

Scott W. Allard is the Daniel J. Evans Endowed Professor of Social Policy and Associate Dean for Research and Engagement at the Evans School of Public Policy and Governance at the University of Washington. Allard is an affiliate of the Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology (CSDE) and of the West Coast Poverty Center. He also served as a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution’s Metropolitan Policy Program from 2010 to 2020. He previously held faculty positions at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University (2000–03), the Department of Political Science at Brown University (2003–08), and in the School of Social Service Administration at the University of Chicago (2008–14). His primary areas of research expertise are social policy, federalism and intergovernmental relations, poverty, and the geography of inequality.

Jacob (Jake) Grumbach

Co-Director of the Washington State Election Database

Jake Grumbach is an Associate Professor at the Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley. He was previously associate professor of political science at the University of Washington and a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics at Princeton. Grumbach studies the political economy of the United States, with interests in democratic institutions, labor, federalism, racial and economic inequality, and statistical methods. His book, Laboratories Against Democracy, investigates the causes and consequences of the nationalization of state politics.

Lauren Woyczynski

Data Scientist

Lauren Woyczynski is a PhD student in the Sociology Department at the University of Washington. She also holds a Masters’ in Public Health from UW focused on Health Metrics and Evaluation. Her research interests span social demography, structural determinants of health, and computational methods. Her current research focuses on health disparities and determinants of lifespan variation in the United States incarcerated population.