Jeremy Gruber is a lawyer, writer, and public policy advocate and is the senior vice president at Open Primaries.[1][2] He is the former President and Executive Director of the Council for Responsible Genetics.[3] He has testified before the United States Congress on genetic privacy and discrimination issues. He was a leader of the successful effort to enact the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act as well as a number of state laws that preceded it[4] and led the successful campaign to roll back a controversial student genetic testing program at the University of California, Berkeley.[5] In 2011, Gruber led an effort to successfully enact CalGINA-a California law that extends genetic privacy and nondiscrimination protections into areas such as life, long term care, and disability insurance, mortgages, elections and other areas.[6]
Gruber is a founder and executive committee member of the Coalition for Genetic Fairness and the Pew Project on the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA).[7] He is an author of the books Genetic Explanations: Sense and Nonsense published by Harvard University Press,[8] Biotechnology in Our Lives published by Skyhorse Publishing,[9] and The GMO Deception by Skyhorse Publishing.[10] He is author of the reports The Myth of the Red State Policy Over Party in the Nebraska State Capitol[11] and The Next Great Migration: The Rise of Independent Voters in America.[12] He is also an author of the law review article Let All Voters Vote: Independents and the Expansion of Voting Rights in the United States.[13]
Gruber received his Juris Doctor (J.D.) from St. John's University School of Law School of Law and a B.A. in Politics from Brandeis University. Previously, he worked as the field director for ACLU's National Taskforce on Civil Liberties in the Workplace and then as legal director for the National Workrights Institute.[14][15]
References
edit- ^ Staff, "Open Primaries". Accessed August 2, 2015.
- ^ Peterson, Kristina (28 March 2016). "Effort in South Dakota Aims to Drop Parties". Wall Street Journal.
- ^ Staff, "Council for Responsible Genetics" Archived 2009-06-19 at the Wayback Machine. Accessed June 2, 2009.
- ^ "Gene Watch Page". Archived from the original on 2011-10-07. Retrieved 2011-08-22.
- ^ "UC Berkeley Backs off Gene-Test Program for Students". Bloomberg.com. 12 August 2010.
- ^ http://leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/sen/sb_0551-0600/sb_559_bill_20110906_chaptered.pdf[bare URL PDF]
- ^ "Coalition for Genetic Fairness". Archived from the original on 2009-06-23. Retrieved 2009-06-04.
- ^ "Genetic Explanations — Sheldon Krimsky, Jeremy Gruber".
- ^ "Biotechnology in Our Lives, What Modern Genetics Can Tell You about Assisted Reproduction, Human Behavior, and Personali". Archived from the original on 2014-03-28. Retrieved 2013-06-26.
- ^ "The GMO Deception, What You Need to Know about the Food, Corporations, and Government Agencies Putting Our Families and". Archived from the original on 2014-11-05. Retrieved 2014-05-28.
- ^ https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/openprimaries/pages/544/attachments/original/1443559603/Nebraska9.29.15.compressed.pdf?1443559603 [bare URL PDF]
- ^ "2020 Independents Report – Open Primaries Education Fund". Archived from the original on 2020-11-30. Retrieved 2020-11-22.
- ^ Gruber, Jeremy; Hardy, Michael; Kresky, Harry (2019-01-01). "Let All Voters Vote: Independents and the Expansion of Voting Rights in the United States". Touro Law Review. 35 (2). ISSN 8756-7326.
- ^ "NWI Executive Profile". Archived from the original on 2009-03-10. Retrieved 2009-06-04.
- ^ Glasner, Joanna (9 December 2005). "Worker Privacy: You Have None". Wired.
External links
edit- "Jeremy Gruber in NY Times
- "Jeremy Gruber on CNN"
- "Jeremy Gruber Forbes Profile"
- "Jeremy Gruber on Workrights' Page"
- "Speech at U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Meeting"
- "Jeremy Gruber on CRG Page" Archived 2010-06-04 at the Wayback Machine
- "Jeremy Gruber Brandeis Magazine Profile"
- "Genetic Explanations Harvard Press Profile"