With experience in the fields of technology, finance, political organizing, advocacy, civic data, and election administration, the members of the CTCL board play a fundamental role in guiding our efforts to enhance civic engagement and strengthen the connections between public leaders and citizens.

Pam Anderson
Director

Pam Anderson is President of Consilium Colorado, LLC., a consulting firm that specializes in public/private leadership, program management specializing in elections policy and administration, and political affairs. Her clients represent local, state, and federal government and the foundation and non-profit space. In 2022, Pam was featured on the cover of Time Magazine as a “Defender of Democracy.”

Pam served five years as Executive Director of the Colorado County Clerks Association, a non-profit professional association which represents the 64 elected and appointed county Clerk and Recorders in the state of Colorado. The Clerk & Recorders are responsible for several functions including administration of local, state and federal elections.

Pam was elected the Jefferson County Clerk and Recorder in 2006 and re-elected in 2010. Previously she served as the elected City Clerk for the City of Wheat Ridge. Jefferson County, Colorado is a politically diverse area located west of Denver with over 450,000 voters. She has a B.A. in History, Master’s Degree in Public Administration and is a CERA-certified election professional.

Pam serves on the Board of the Center for Tech and Civic Life, Center for Election Innovation and Research, and is Trustee of the Jefferson County Public Library. She has served as a member of the Dean’s Advisory Board for the School of Public Affairs at the University of Colorado, Denver and an advisory member of the Pew Center Performance Index of Elections Advisory group. She is Past-President of the Colorado County Clerks Association, and she led the CCCA when the Colorado General Assembly passed model election reforms, known as the Colorado Voter Access and Modernization Act (COVAME).

Tiana Epps-Johnson
Executive Director

Tiana Epps-Johnson is Founder and Executive Director with the Center for Tech and Civic Life. She is leading a team that is doing groundbreaking work to make US elections more inclusive and secure. In 2020 when the COVID pandemic collided with the US Presidential Election, Tiana led a $350 million nonpartisan effort to prevent Election Day from becoming a superspreader event, and to ensure a smooth and secure process for voters nationwide. Today, some analysts and officials say this effort “helped save the [2020] election.” 

Tiana is a 2022 University of Chicago Center for Effective Government Senior Practitioner Fellow, a 2021 Emerson Collective Dial Fellow, a recipient of the 2020 Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship, and was selected to join the inaugural cohorts of Obama Foundation Fellows (2018) and Harvard Ash Center Technology and Democracy Fellows (2015). Tiana earned a MSc in Politics and Communication from the London School of Economics and a BA in Political Science from Stanford University.

Matt Masterson
Director

Matt Masterson is Director of Information Integrity at Microsoft. As a member of the Microsoft Democracy Forward team, he leads their information integrity work, as well as contributes to election technology and security efforts. He recently served as Senior Cybersecurity Advisor at the Department of Homeland Security, where he focused on election security issues. He previously served as a Commissioner at the Election Assistance Commission from December 2014 until March 2018, including serving as the Commission’s Chairman in 2017-2018. Prior to that, he held staff positions with the Ohio Secretary of State’s office, where he oversaw voting-system certification efforts and helped develop an online voter registration system. Matt holds a law degree from the University of Dayton School of Law and BS and BA degrees from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.

Tammy Patrick
Director, Secretary

Tammy Patrick, CERA, is the Chief Executive Officer for Programs at the Election Center, the National Association of Election Officials. Tammy Patrick has been working in the election administration space since 2003–most recently as the Senior Advisor to the Elections Program at Democracy Fund. Focusing on modern elections, Tammy works to foster a voter-centric elections system and support election officials across the country. In 2013, she was selected by President Obama to serve as a commissioner on the Presidential Commission on Election Administration, which led to a position at the Bipartisan Policy Center to further the work of the PCEA. Prior to that, she was the Federal Compliance Officer for Maricopa County Elections Department for eleven years.

She has testified on election administration policies multiple times in the United States Senate and House of Representatives, and numerous state legislatures on behalf of members of both parties. She has been an active member of the Election Center’s Legislative and Postal committees, representing the organization to the United States Postal Service’s Mailers Technical Advisory Committee for over a decade. She elevates the election official perspective in the media and by serving as a member of numerous boards of advisors and steering committees.

She received her CERA certification in 2007 from Auburn University and the Election Center and was honored to be inducted into their Hall of Fame in 2022. She has served as an adjunct professor at the University of Minnesota’s Humphrey School of Public Policy since 2016.

Cristina Sinclaire
Director, President

Cristina Sinclaire is a Partner at Clarity Campaign Labs, a political analytics firm in Washington, DC. Before joining Clarity, she served as Director of Client Services at Catalist, providing data and data services to over 200 organizations. Prior to that she researched voting laws and built civic data tools at the New Organizing Institute.

Cristina has managed electoral campaigns and organized communities from California to South Africa. In addition to her role at CTCL, she sits on the Boards of the National Public Radio Foundation, Change the Game, the Alliance for CHANGE, and the Earthward Bound Foundation.

Cristina is a graduate of the University of San Francisco, where she studied Sociology and Criminology. She brings a diverse and extensive background in voting laws, advocacy, civic tech and organizational management to the CTCL board.