Sam DeJohn is a research assistant at the Governance Lab (GovLab) at New York University's Tandon School of Engineering. His current research focuses on governance innovations with an emphasis on Latin-American countries and Spain. Examples of his current work include a study of the Decide Madrid public engagement platform and similar initiatives designed to facilitate citizen participation in governance and lawmaking.
DeJohn also contributes to the GovLab blog and serves as a communications assistant to GovLab's director of communications.