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Join the League and Fair Districts PA for a zoom forum on Redistricting Lessons Learned on Wednesday May 31 from 7 to 8:30 pm.

As work begins in drafting the next round of redistricting legislation, we have much to learn from the panelists who will be joining us:

Kathay Feng, VP of Program with Common Cause US, was the architect of California’s Citizens Redistricting Commission, leading the multi-year effort to create the first independent citizens redistricting commission in the country. As a voting and civil rights lawyer, Kathay has had a lead role in promoting redistricting reform through ballot initiatives and legislative advocacy.

Jonathan Cervas was the mapping consultant for the Pennsylvania Legislative Redistricting Commission in 2021-2022. He was an active participant in drawing the current PA House and Senate district maps. In 2022, he also served as Special Master for the state of New York, drawing the state's Congressional and state Senate districts. He’s a postdoctoral fellow at Carnegie Mellon University and has co-authored numerous articles on gerrymandering and redistricting.

The discussion will be moderated by Salewa Ogunmefun, Executive Director of Pennsylvania Voice, a strong ally in the effort to address prison gerrymandering and to include community input in the Pennsylvania mapping process.

This will be the first forum hosted by the new Pennsylvania Redistricting Table, a network of organizations joining together to support community engagement in redistricting reform. Fair Districts PA, Pennsylvania Voice, the League of Women Voters of Pennsylvania, Committee of Seventy, Draw the Lines, Common Cause PA, and NAACP of Pennsylvania are co-hosts of this collaborative effort.