Steven Hill

Steven Hill is a co-founder of FairVote, and its former assistant director and senior fellow. He is also the former director of the Political Reform Program at the New America Foundation, based in Washington DC. Steven has been a longtime spark plug for the national movement to enact ranked choice voting and proportional representation in the United States, having led the winning campaigns for RCV in San Francisco, Oakland and other places. He has mentored and advised nascent reform efforts in numerous states and cities.

Steven is the author of seven books, including 10 Steps to Repair American Democracy: A More Perfect Union; Fixing Elections: The Failure of America's Winner Take All Politics, which a reviewer called “the most important book on American democracy that has come out in many years,” and Reflecting All of Us/Whose Vote Counts (co-authored with Rob Richie from FairVote). His essays, articles and media interviews have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Wired, Los Angeles Times, The Atlantic, Guardian, Le Monde, Die Zeit, NPR, PBS, BBC, ARD, C-SPAN, Democracy Now, and many others. He is the founder, chief editor and contributor to the online publication DemocracySOS.