Victoria Bassetti has worked with legislative and judicial bodies of the U.S. government, including serving as chief counsel/staff director to a subcommittee of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee. She has been active in numerous political campaigns and participates regularly in Election Day voter-protection efforts. She is the author of Electoral Dysfunction: A Survival Manual for American Voters (The New Press). Her writings have appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Chicago, and Harper’s. She writes regularly for NYU’s Brennan Center for Justice and on her Tumblr blog. She lives in Brooklyn.