Jeremy Gruber is a lawyer, writer, and public policy advocate and is the senior vice president at Open Primaries. He is the former President and Executive Director of the Council for Responsible Genetics. 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 and led the successful campaign to roll back a controversial student genetic testing program at the University of California, Berkeley. 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. Gruber is a founder and executive committee member of the

Coalition for Genetic Fairness The Coalition for Genetic Fairness (CGF) is a public interest group concerned about genetic discrimination. The group was founded in 1997 by several organizations. Much of the CGF's work to date has been surrounding the Genetic Information Nondis ...

and the Pew Project on the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA). He is an author of the books Genetic Explanations: Sense and Nonsense published by Harvard University Press, Biotechnology in Our Lives published by Skyhorse Publishing, and The GMO Deception by Skyhorse Publishing. He is author of the reports The Myth of the Red State Policy Over Party in the Nebraska State Capitol and The Next Great Migration: The Rise of Independent Voters in America. 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. Gruber received his Juris Doctor (J.D.) from

St. John's University School of Law St. John's University School of Law is a Roman Catholic law school in Jamaica, Queens, New York, United States, affiliated with St. John's University. The School of Law was founded in 1925, and confers Juris Doctor degrees and degrees for Maste ...

School of Law and a B.A. in Politics from Brandeis University. Previously, he worked as the field director for

ACLU The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is a nonprofit organization founded in 1920 "to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to every person in this country by the Constitution and laws of the United States". T ...

's National Taskforce on Civil Liberties in the Workplace and then as legal director for the

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* ttp://www.councilforresponsiblegenetics.org/Help/Staffs.aspx "Jeremy Gruber on CRG Page"br>"Jeremy Gruber Brandeis Magazine Profile""Genetic Explanations Harvard Press Profile"
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