The Roosevelt Institution

Matthew Segal

School: Kenyon College Chapter of the Roosevelt Institution

Member of:
Chapter Heads
Expo Cocktail Reception
Core Chapters and Staff
Democracy Week
Roosevelt Policy Expo 2006
Socioeconomic Diversity in Higher Education
Kenyon College Chapter of the Roosevelt Institution
Making Democracy Work
Roosevelt Challenges
Senior Staff
Center on Voting Reform

Matthew Segal is the founder and executive director of the Student Association for Voter Empowerment (SAVE), a Washington, D.C.-based non-partisan, non-profit organization, founded and run by students, with a mission to increase youth voter turnout by removing access barriers and promoting stronger civic education.

In less than a year, SAVE has established more than 25 college chapters, formed a board of directors including many of the nation's top lawmakers, held numerous news conferences, hosted town hall forums with presidential candidates, and directed national meetings on civic education and student voting rights. SAVE has also formed partnerships with the League of Conservation Voters Education Fund, Earth Day Network, Common Cause, and Mobilize.org.

Segal, 22, has significant experience with young voters. He has testified before the U.S. Congress about voting problems in college districts. He has stood with U.S. senators and members of Congress leading a lobbying effort of more than 1,000 students for the Voting Rights Act reauthorization. He was appointed a senior research fellow and national democracy coordinator for the Roosevelt Institution, a 7,000-member national student think tank. He is a leader on Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner's Voting Rights Advisory Council. He guides regular workshops and panels on youth-voter mobilization and voter-participation trends. He also contributes a blog to The Huffington Post.

Segal has been featured on Fox News, C-Span, Al-Jazeera English, Voices of
America, XM Satellite Radio, and the Discovery Channel as well as quoted by the Associated Press, the Washington Post, the Columbus Dispatch, the Akron Beacon Journal, the Cleveland Plain Dealer, the Press of Atlantic City, the Palm Beach Post, the Iowa Press Citizen, The Nation, the American Prospect, The Politico Newspaper, Scripps Howard News Service, The Chronicle for Higher Education, Inside Higher Ed and several other media outlets.