Cory is a leading expert on the impact of emerging technology and democracy and civil society.

His work on voter registration has led to more than 6 million new registered voters across the United States through organizations that he founded (Secure the Ballot) or where he is a senior advisor (Field Team 6).

His work on humanitarian relief has helped to change the landscape of disaster response around the country. In 2015, he launched Columbia Relief (then called UofSC Relief), which mobilized more than 10,000 volunteers and a billion pounds of donations in response to Hurricane Joaquin, developing a blueprint for locally-driven, technology-enabled disaster relief that has been replicated around the world.

He then carried on his work as Senior Advisor to Mayor Steve Benjamin as President of the US Conference of Mayors, helping to build and manage disaster response portfolios for cities around the country.

In 2022, Cory was deployed to Ukraine to advise the technology-enabled humanitarian response to the invasion. He was also tasked with deploying a new platform to collect evidence for war crimes investigations.

Cory’s extensive political experience includes roles on three Presidential campaigns for Hillary Clinton, Pete Buttigieg, and Joe Biden. He was one of the first hires on Buttigieg’s historic run in 2020 and led the development of the campaign across the Southeast. He has also worked on or advised more than a dozen campaigns at the Senate, Gubernatorial, House, mayoral, and state legislative levels.

He served for three years in the Biden-Harris White House. He travelled around the United States and around the world to build events and public engagements for the Biden-Harris Administration. Notable trips included leading the Second Gentleman’s visit to Auschwitz in 2023, as the first Jewish White House principal, and playing a leading role in the first-ever White House visits to Namibia and Samoa.

He is currently working on a PhD investigating the impacts of artificial intelligence on democracy at the University of Melbourne. He writes a regular column in the Sydney Morning Herald / The Age, and has been published in the Straits Times (Singapore), Kyiv Independent (Ukraine), Haaretz (Israel), Post and Courier (USA), and Pursuit (Australia), and is a sought-after commentator on technology and global affairs.

He is a graduate of the University of South Carolina and a member of the Committee for the First Amendment.