OUR TEAM
Murray Edelman
Murray Edelman, Ph.D. is a media consultant on elections and polling and currently on the Board of Directors of the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research at Cornell University. For 10 years he was in charge of exit polling and election night projections for a pool of ABC,CBS, CNN, FOX,NBC and the Associated Press. He is nationally known for calling Gore the winner in Florida in 2000. (choose episode 2 of the Fiasco series.)
He was President of the American Association of Public Opinion Research (AAPOR) and a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in Human Development.
Murray was an early gay activist and inductee in the City of Chicago LGBT Hall of Fame for his role as founder of the gay movement in Chicago in 1969 and for his pioneering research on lesbian and gay voting behavior. He is currently President of the Board for the Naraya Cultural Preservation Council which supports ceremonial work based in the traditions of the Great Basin indigenous people.
Timothy White Eagle
Timothy White Eagle is a mixed race Indigenous American artist, performer and writer. He has presented his art and performance on three continents. He was the recipient of the WAA/AIP Launch Pad award and a 2020 Seattle “City Artist” award. He works with Circle Voting a contributor, project manager and art director. He lives and works in Seattle Washington, the traditional territory of the Coast Salish people.
Rosette Royal
Rosette Royale is a writer, storyteller and editor whose work focuses on race, class, gender and sexuality. His writing has appeared in Rolling Stone, Portland Magazine and elsewhere. He is a recipient of the Sigma Delta Chi Award for Feature Writing. He lives in Seattle.
Rebecca Farr
Rebecca Farr is a visual artist based in Los Angeles. She creates paintings and installation work concerned with the spiritual nature of the corporeal. Her interest in the somatic experience extends to ritual and healing practices and her roots in this work include two decades as a sexuality educator and community organizer. Social justice and anti-oppression thought are foundational influences on her path.