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James Turk is an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Masters Program in Computer Science at the University of Chicago. His career began in Montana, where he worked with Project Vote Smart. He has extensive experience in Civic Tech, having served as the Director of Sunlight Labs at the Sunlight Foundation, where he led a team focused on state and local projects. Turk was the lead of the Open States project for 13 years, which curates a freely available repository of state legislative information for all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. This project received funding from various sources, including the National Science Foundation's Convergence Accelerator program and the Reynolds Journalism Institute. Additionally, Turk has held positions at PBS as Director of Technology and served as Principal Engineer for the Princeton Gerrymandering Project, and Director of Public Data at Civic Eagle.
Department of Philosophy