Adam clayton powell iii biography sample
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A storied career from Cronkite to election security
Powell had retired as USC’s vice provost for globalization in 2010 but was working in the Washington, DC, office of the university’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism to lead discussions on various tech-related topics.
When the idea of securing election infrastructure came up, he organized a task force to address the issue.
“This was 2015. So in 2016, when the Democratic National Committee emails were hacked and released, we had a multidisciplinary team already in place starting to work,” he says.
The task force held what turned out to be popular sessions on how to secure internet-connected systems, and those led to the development of workshops in partnership with the National Governors Association to help states prepare their election security protocols.
The project has since expanded globally, with sessions held in such countries as Greece, South Africa, and Taiwan.
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