Jeremy Smith
Jeremy Smith is the founder and CEO of Civitech, a public benefit company working on civic technology infrastructure. He is a West Point graduate and Marshall scholar who studied Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases. He served eight years in the Army, primarily as an Engineer officer working on removing IEDs, landmines, and booby traps. He also served in Special Operations as a leader in counterterrorism and hostage rescue. After leaving the military, Jeremy worked to provide operational guidance and planning for several Voter Protection initiatives, where he helped recruit, train, and coordinate more than 12,000 attorneys countering voter suppression, and then founded the nonprofit Register2Vote, a free service that helps anyone in the country get registered to vote.
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