Commission application number 360 submitted by Jason Callahan on 09/30/2020
First Name | Jason |
Last Name | Callahan |
Voter Unique Identification number | 1130660013 |
Ethnicity | White |
Gender | Male |
Age | 35-44 |
Education Level | Post-Graduate Degree |
Major Pursued | mathematics |
What is your occupation? | professor |
Submitted Address | |
City | Austin |
State | TX |
Zip | 78704 |
Verified Address | |
City | Austin |
State | TX |
Zip | 78704 |
Do you have a spouse or domestic partner? | Yes |
Are you applying to be the student member of the commission? | No |
Have you been continuously registered to vote in the City of Austin for the last five years? | Yes |
Have you voted in 3 of the last 5 City of Austin general elections (or corresponding runoff if applicable)? | Yes |
Been appointed to a state or city office? | No |
Been elected to a state or city office? | No |
Been a candidate for a state or city office? | No |
Served as an officer, employee, or paid consultant of a political party? | No |
Served as an officer, employee, or paid consultant of the campaign committee of a candidate for elective state, county, or city office? | No |
Been a registered state or local lobbyist? | No |
A paid employee of the City of Austin? | No |
A person performing paid services under a professional services contract with the City of Austin? | No |
A person performing paid services under a professional or personal services contract to the City Council of the City of Austin or to any individual member of the City Council of the City of Austin? | No |
A controlling person of a person performing paid services under a professional or personal services contract to any member of the City Council of the City of Austin? | No |
Contribute or bundle one thousand dollars ($1,000) or more in aggregate to candidates for City of Austin elective office? | No |
Please describe your relevant analytical skills. | My PhD in mathematics is in the field of geometric topology whose techniques have been used to study gerrymandering in redistricting. I have taught mathematics at UT-Austin and St. Edward's University for the last seventeen years, and a student whose research I supervised recently used geometric techniques to study racial gerrymandering in Texas congressional districts and presented our research at several conferences. |
Please describe your ability to be impartial. | Teaching mathematics at UT-Austin and St. Edward's University the last seventeen years has required me to be impartial as has serving as Faculty Senate President to which I was elected this past year. |
Please describe your appreciation for the City of Austin's diverse demographics and geography. | I fell in love with everything about the City of Austin including its diverse demographics and geography in 1996 when I started visiting as I finished high school in San Antonio. I moved here in 1999 and have been loving it ever since as I've lived on both sides of the river and both sides of 35. |
Please provide your employment history. | I attended UT-Austin for undergraduate and graduate school, earning my PhD in mathematics in the field of geometric topology whose techniques have been used to study gerrymandering in redistricting. I am now a full professor with tenure and Faculty Senate President at St. Edward's University, where I have been since 2009 and where a student whose research I supervised recently used geometric techniques to study racial gerrymandering in Texas congressional districts and presented our research at several conferences. |
Please provide any other information you wish to be considered during the selection of the most qualified applicants for the Commission. | I was named one of the "sixty most qualified applicants" when I applied for the Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission in 2013. |
How did you hear about redistricting/Applicant Review Panel? | Radio, redistrictATX.org |
Disclaimer Agreement | Checked |
Disclaimer Signature | Jason Callahan |
District | District 3 |
Does this application qualify? | Yes |