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Jonathan Cervas is an Assistant Teaching Professor at Carnegie Mellon University specializing in redistricting, voting rights, and American political institutions. He earned his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Irvine in 2020. Cervas has served as Special Master in New York and as a consultant for the Wisconsin Supreme Court and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania on redistricting issues. He has also worked as an Assistant Special Master in federal court cases related to the Voting Rights Act and racial gerrymandering, preparing remedies for the federal court case Allen v. Milligan. Additionally, he has testified as a credible fact expert in numerous redistricting lawsuits. His research has been published in peer-reviewed journals such as the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the Election Law Journal, the Albany Law Review, and Political Geography. Jonathan has been profiled in the New York Times in 2022.
Admission is extremely competitive with no strict GPA cut-offs; holistic review is used.