Mark Schneider
Political Scientist and Researcher Adviser, Community Change
Mark Schneider, Ph.D. (Columbia University, 2015) is a Political Scientist and Research Adviser who works with Community Change, National Democratic Institute, and other nonprofit organizations in Washington focused on elections, misinformation, and public policy. A CASI Non-Resident Scholar, his academic research interests include decentralization and local governance, local distributive behavior, party-voter linkages, and survey methods. His research has been published in Electoral Studies, Party Politics, and Perspectives on Politics. His ongoing projects includes research on local state capacity, social preferences, and turnout in India and the United States.
From 2019-22, Mark was a senior researcher on Civic and Central Integrity at Meta, where he developed qualitative and survey research that shaped large-scale content moderation policies related to online hate speech and violence and incitement. Prior to this, he was a Visiting Professor of Political Science at Pitzer College and Swarthmore College.