Caroline TolbertCaroline Tolbert is a Distinguished University Professor of Political Science at the University of Iowa. She was named a 2021 Andrew Carnegie Fellow for her research on voting and state election laws. She is coauthor of Accessibl Elections: How State Governments Can Help Americans Vote (2020) and Choosing the Future: Technology and Opportunity in Communities (2021), both with Oxford University Press. The latter won the 2022 Goldsmith Prize for the best book from the Shorenstein Center at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. She is coauthor of three other books on technology and politics, including Digital Cities, Digital Citizenship, and Virtual Inequality: Beyond the Digital Divide. Digital Citizenship was ranked one of 20 best-selling titles by the American Library Association. She has published widely on political participation, voter turnout, elections, and public opinion. Funded by the National Science Foundation and others, her work seeks to strengthen American democracy and increase participation in politics.