Tom Grayman runs Gray Area Research, a consumer and political research firm in New York. He has nearly a decade-and-a-half of experience as a marketing research professional, having worked for such leading organizations as ABC News and Viacom.

Grayman was in Jacksonville, Florida on Election Day 2004 and observed the administration of the vote in that heavily-African-American city. He has recently been interviewed on the topic of the 2004 election on Air America Radio’s "The Al Franken Show;" on "BET Nightly News;" and on NPR, Pacifica, commercial, and community radio stations in such markets as New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Tampa, Atlanta, Boston, St. Louis, and Washington, DC. He has addressed the topic before national civil rights groups, local organizations, and college audiences across the country. Born and raised in New York City, his years of political and social activism include:

• commentary published in The New York Amsterdam News, Electronic Media, Democratic Underground.com and broadcast by The Black World Today.com

• demonstrating against racial profiling in the wake of the police shooting of unarmed black New Yorker Amadou Diallo

• co-production of the 1997 National Association for Multi-ethnicity In Communications New York benefit gala honoring Muhammad Ali and raising $250,000 for children and families with AIDS

• volunteer tutoring of minority urban youth through the Fresh Air Fund’s Camp Mariah, founded by singer Mariah Carey