Leora Hanser

Leora Hanser - Director of Development and External RelationsLeora is Director of Development and External Affairs and has worked for the Hansard Society since 2007.She is responsible for the Hansard Society's external communications, marketing and fundraising.She is also a member of the British American Project, an organisation that links professionals in the US and the UK.

Prior to joining the Hansard Society, Leora was Campaigns Manager at Help the Aged where she led a variety of advocacy campaigns.She is the former Executive Director of the New Democracy Project, a progressive think tank in New York City, where she pioneered initiatives to reform campaign finance and led programmes to improve access to voting.She also held a series of posts in Democratic politics working for former presidential advisor George Stephanopoulos, former Governor of New York Mario Cuomo and US Senator Charles Schumer.She also led national lobbying campaigns focusing on labour and environmental causes.She is a graduate of Columbia University and the London School of Economics.Contact Leora at l.hanser@hansard.lse.ac.uk.

For Immediate Release: Contact: Leora Hanser Monday, June 9, 2003 (212) 490-0001
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CONTACT: Leora Hanser, New Democracy Project, (212) 490-0001 or leora@newdemocracyproject.com; or Christine Kraly, (703) 276-3258 or ckraly@hastingsgroup.com.

For Immediate Release:                                                          Contact: Leora Hanser Monday, June 9, 2003                                                                       (212) 490-0001
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CONTACT: Leora Hanser, New Democracy Project, (212) 490-0001 or leora@newdemocracyproject.com; or Christine Kraly, (703) 276-3258 or ckraly@hastingsgroup.com.

Leora Hanser, the executive director of the New Democracy Project, a non-profit and non-partisan organization based out of New York City agrees.She said that most of today's college students remember the close 2000 election, and will vote this fall."The particularly progressive, galvanized population realizes that there were only 537 votes that stood between Gore and Bush," she said.

Hanser said that the two issues that will most resonate with college voters this year are the war in Iraq and the candidates' stances on social issues.

"College students are more insulated from the economy than adults," she said."Seniors who will soon be hunting around in the job market will feel the effects of the economy more than other undergraduates."

Hanser, who ran Columbia University's Voter Empowerment Project from 1996 to 1999 while a student at Barnard College said, "The first thing I used to tell people who asked me why I was doing all of this at Columbia was that we are so lucky to have this right [to vote] and we have an obligation as American citizens to take advantage of this as soon as we turn 18."