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Clarissa Unger
Co-Founder and Executive Director, Students Learn Students Vote Coalition
Clarissa Unger is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of the Students Learn Students Vote Coalition, the largest national nonpartisan network in the United States dedicated to increasing student voter participation. She has a background in advocacy, communications, fundraising, and political campaigns and has worked on strategic campaigns both nationally and internationally. Prior to founding the SLSV Coalition, she served as the Development Coordinator for the Robert. J. Dole Institute of Politics at the University of Kansas where she helped to promote civic and democratic engagement on campus. Clarissa has a Masters in Public Administration and a BA in Political Science and International Studies from the University of Kansas and a Masters in Comparative European Politics from Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland.