Professor Lynn Vavreck is the Marvin Hoffenberg Professor of American Politics and Public Policy at UCLA, a contributor to The Upshot at The New York Times, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is a recipient of the Andrew F. Carnegie Award in the Humanities and Social Sciences and the author of six books, including a forthcoming book on the 2020 presidential election called The Bitter End: The 2020 Presidential Election & the Challenge to American Democracy. Her 2016 book, Identity Crisis, was named the “most ominous” book of 2018 by The Washington Post Book Review, and Nate Silver dubbed her 2012 election book the “definitive account” of that election. In 2019, she developed Nationscape, a 500,000–interview election survey. She currently runs the UCLA + CDC Covid-19 Health and Politics Project, a collaboration between medical doctors and social scientists at UCLA and researchers at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control. At UCLA she teaches courses on campaigns, elections, public opinion, and the 1960s. Professor Vavreck holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Rochester and held previous appointments at Princeton University, Dartmouth College, and The White House. A native of Cleveland, Ohio, she remains a loyal Browns fan and is a “known equestrian”—to draw on a phrase from the 2012 presidential campaign.