Leadership

Re-Imagine 911 (2022)

  • Technical Subject Matter Expert for joint Code for America/U Chicago Health Labs recommendations report on future approaches to non-violent 911 calls. The report was released in Aug 2022.

United States Digital Service (2019 - 2021)

  • Led USDS panel discussion & presentation for colleagues about what to expect during a presidential election year as a federal employee (June - Sept 2020); Pitched the idea to two colleagues to curate and share knowledge on the topic. Facilitated panel and recruited speakers. For presentation: created, disseminated, and analyzed structured survey to USDS alumnae about their experience working during the 2016 election. Shared outcomes in all-hands staff meeting.

  • Facilitated design workshop for White House COVID Data Task Force (June 2020); Facilitated 45+ person design workshop with task force members to understand the key data they needed. The data elements identified in the exercise then determined new policy requirements regarding data elements that health care providers would share with the federal government.

  • Co-Presented “Product Design vs. Service Design” session at UX Summit (June 2020); Wrote and co-presented a session on when to use product design versus service design in work, how to tell the difference for which you need, and how to hire the right contractor when interviewing vendors. Had 250+ attendees during conference for federal government designers.

  • Led hackathon team in developing the “USDS Care Team” (Feb 2020); Team was awarded the “most inclusive project” award for the internal USDS Hackathon. Pitched idea of an internal work team to support colleagues experience positive and challenging life events (marriage, new child, sick family member, pet death, etc.). Led team of 5 cross-disciplinary colleagues to develop operational activities and guidelines to implement the idea.

Procedure: Women Remaking Medicine (2019)

  • Featured in Procedure: Women in Digital Health by Emily F. Peters (Jan 2019), a book about women remaking the broken US healthcare system. In the chapter focused on my story (and co-founder’s story), we shared our work at RideAlong and our reflections on the larger system.

City Innovate (2019)

  • Led strategic review of how City Innovate can better support govtech startups to scale their work with local government (Aug 2019 - Jan 2020). Pitched executive directors to create a landscape assessment of what government technology startups need from government partners. Led research from ideation through analysis with 64 respondents nationally. Wrote executive report of findings for senior leadership and board with concrete recommendations for next steps.

BJA Grant (2018)

  • Served as Technology & Data Subject Matter Expert with Vera Institute (2018 - 2019) on a competitive national grant awarded by Bureau of Justice Assistance (a department of the US Dept of Justice). This was a national initiative to enhance policing for persons with mental illnesses and developmental disabilities. A summary of the work can be found here.

SXSW (2018)

  • RideAlong won the national govtech startup competition in 2017, awarded by mayors from a joint Civic/IO and SXSW pitch competition. Read a blog post about the event.

  • Facilitated “Using Tech to Improve Police-Community Relations” session at March 2018 convening, sharing the stage with two former police chiefs and another startup founder.

Data-Driven Justice Initiative (2016)

  • Presented work at The White House (Obama Administration) as a Subject Matter Expert at the Data-Driven Justice initiative (June 2016).

  • Continued to share expertise on data and technology in 2017 - 2019, as the DDJ initiative moved to the Arnold Foundation and continued convening law enforcements nationally.

Code for San Francisco (2015)

  • Was the Director of SF National Day of Civic Hacking 2015 - a hackathon - video link

    • For annual hackathon - For 2015, tripled number of attendees, budget, and activities: 300+ attendees, 20+ projects, $34K budget; Raised $23,000 in donations and sponsorships.

  • As part of leadership team, launched new newsletter and mailing list for Code for SF, gained 800+ subscribers in 4 months.

  • See Code for SF project page for more detailed information

Bay Area Emerging Museum Professionals (2012 - 2014)

  • Was on Executive Leadership Committee for 2 years, defining direction and events for members