Civic tech

Building tools and strategies to bring essential public services closer to the communities they’re designed to serve.

 

Talks

2021 - Present

Beeck Center of Georgetown University & Code for America (Dec 2024), “FormFest: Forms from Coast to Coast,” Panelist. Spoke alongside colleagues from the NYC Office for Economic Opportunity and leaders from the City of Portland.

Code for America Summit (May 2024), “Unpacking product management in government,” Panelist. Spoke alongside leaders from Perennial, California Office of Data and Innovation, & the Dept. of Health & Human Services.

NYC Open Data Week (March 2024), “Data in Action: Bridging the Public Benefits Enrollment Gap,” Speaker. Spoke alongside colleagues from the NYC Office for Economic Opportunity. Watch.

Code for America Summit (May 2023), “Building in Public: Developing Shared Open Source Software in Gov’t,” Speaker. Spoke alongside colleagues from Google.org and leaders from Exygy, the City of Seattle, and the State of Arkanas.

NYU A Better Tech Convention (Oct 2021), “Gov’t Services as a Product”, Speaker. Presented alongside colleagues from Ad Hoc. Watch.

UPenn Public Interest Tech Club (March 2021), “A Look Into the Near Future: Opportunities in Public Interest Tech,” Panelist. Spoke alongside leaders from the ACLU, University of Melbourne, and more.

International Coalition of Girls’ Schools Speaker Series (April 2020), “Product Management in Civic Tech,” Speaker.


Selected work

Finding public benefits

Helping millions of New Yorkers find the public benefits they qualify for and need.

NYC Office for Economic Opportunity

Personalized recommendations

Delivering personalized recommendations for public benefits to New Yorkers who opt-in.

NYC Office for Economic Opportunity

Cutting time to apply

Reducing the time it takes to apply for public benefits by re-using data from across programs. Available in Seattle, Charlotte, Arkansas, and more.

Google.org