Jeremy Gruber

Jeremy Gruber is a lawyer, writer, and public policy advocate and is the senior vice president at Open Primaries.Staff, [http://www.openprimaries.org "Open Primaries"]. Accessed August 2, 2015.{{Cite news | url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/effort-in-south-dakota-aims-to-drop-parties-1459209463/ | title=Effort in South Dakota Aims to Drop Parties| newspaper=Wall Street Journal| date=28 March 2016| last1=Peterson| first1=Kristina}} He regularly [https://openprimaries.org/research/ testifies] before state legislatures on bills to open the primaries.https://openprimaries.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Gruber-PA-Testimony.pdf He is the former President and Executive Director of the Council for Responsible Genetics.Staff, [http://www.councilforresponsiblegenetics.org "Council for Responsible Genetics"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090619101708/http://www.councilforresponsiblegenetics.org/ |date=2009-06-19 }}. Accessed June 2, 2009. 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{{Cite web |url=http://www.councilforresponsiblegenetics.org/GeneWatch/GeneWatchPage.aspx?pageId=185&archive=yes%2F |title=Gene Watch Page |access-date=2011-08-22 |archive-date=2011-10-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111007144139/http://www.councilforresponsiblegenetics.org/GeneWatch/GeneWatchPage.aspx?pageId=185&archive=yes%2F |url-status=dead }} and led the successful campaign to roll back a controversial student genetic testing program at the University of California, Berkeley.{{cite news | url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-08-12/uc-berkeley-backs-off-gene-test-program-for-students-blocked-by-state.html/ | title=UC Berkeley Backs off Gene-Test Program for Students | newspaper=Bloomberg.com | date=12 August 2010 }} 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.http://leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/sen/sb_0551-0600/sb_559_bill_20110906_chaptered.pdf

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Gruber is a founder of the Let Us Vote campaignhttps://www.letusvote.org to build a national community of independent voters and regularly writes and speaks on the second-class status of independent voters.{{cite web | url=https://www.newsday.com/opinion/commentary/guest-essays/independent-voters-political-primaries-board-of-elections-gwk1leoa | title=Stop NY's war on independent voters | date=22 February 2024 }}{{cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnnBA6jfPg8 | title=Open Primaries SVP Jeremy Gruber: I'm an Independent Voter (Ballot PA Rally for Open Primaries) | website=YouTube | date=14 April 2024 }} He is author of the reports The Myth of the Red State Policy Over Party in the Nebraska State Capitolhttps://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/openprimaries/pages/544/attachments/original/1443559603/Nebraska9.29.15.compressed.pdf?1443559603 {{Bare URL PDF|date=March 2022}} and The Next Great Migration: The Rise of Independent Voters in America.{{Cite web|title=2020 Independents Report – Open Primaries Education Fund|url=http://openprimarieseducationfund.org/2020-independents-report/|access-date=2020-11-22|language=en-US|archive-date=2020-11-30|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201130223017/http://openprimarieseducationfund.org/2020-independents-report/|url-status=dead}} 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.{{Cite journal|last1=Gruber|first1=Jeremy|last2=Hardy|first2=Michael|last3=Kresky|first3=Harry|date=2019-01-01|title=Let All Voters Vote: Independents and the Expansion of Voting Rights in the United States|url=https://digitalcommons.tourolaw.edu/lawreview/vol35/iss2/4|journal=Touro Law Review|volume=35|issue=2|issn=8756-7326}} He is a founder and executive committee member of the Coalition for Genetic Fairness and the Pew Project on the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA).{{Cite web | url=http://www.geneticfairness.org/ | title=Coalition for Genetic Fairness | access-date=2009-06-04 | archive-date=2009-06-23 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090623092350/http://www.geneticfairness.org/ | url-status=dead }} He is an author of the books Genetic Explanations: Sense and Nonsense published by Harvard University Press,{{Cite web | url=http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674064461 | title=Genetic Explanations — Sheldon Krimsky, Jeremy Gruber}} Biotechnology in Our Lives published by Skyhorse Publishing,{{Cite web |url=http://www.skyhorsepublishing.com/book/?GCOI=60239103929220& |title=Biotechnology in Our Lives, What Modern Genetics Can Tell You about Assisted Reproduction, Human Behavior, and Personali |access-date=2013-06-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140328104710/http://www.skyhorsepublishing.com/book/?GCOI=60239103929220& |archive-date=2014-03-28 |url-status=dead }} and The GMO Deception by Skyhorse Publishing.{{Cite web |url=http://www.skyhorsepublishing.com/book/?GCOI=60239104930340& |title=The GMO Deception, What You Need to Know about the Food, Corporations, and Government Agencies Putting Our Families and |access-date=2014-05-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141105214543/http://www.skyhorsepublishing.com/book/?GCOI=60239104930340& |archive-date=2014-11-05 |url-status=dead }}

Gruber received his Juris Doctor (J.D.) from St. John's University School of Law School of Law and a B.A. in Politics from Brandeis University. Previously, he worked as the field director for ACLU's National Taskforce on Civil Liberties in the Workplace and then as legal director for the National Workrights Institute.{{Cite web |url=http://www.workrights.org/about/jeremy.html |title=NWI Executive Profile |access-date=2009-06-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090310174709/http://www.workrights.org/about/jeremy.html |archive-date=2009-03-10 |url-status=dead }}{{Cite magazine | url=https://www.wired.com/politics/security/news/2005/12/69732 |title = Worker Privacy: You Have None|magazine = Wired|date = 9 December 2005|last1 = Glasner|first1 = Joanna}}