My longstanding professional goals are: make the American social safety net an accessible, humane, and equitable driver of social mobility; shape transformative tech initiatives and teams that don’t burn people out; and retain enough time and energy for making weird art with friends.

While my work is far from done, I’ve made a good sized dent in my first decade as a technologist committed to movement building and safety net strengthening. Here are some highlights:

• Leading a team at New America’s New Practice Lab that piloted a rapid response, multilingual COVID-19 vaccine communications program with the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment.

• Improving the user experience for millions of Americans logging into and managing their accounts on HealthCare.gov

• Retiring a 100 year old form and designing radically improved case management tools with the Department of Veteran Affairs, reducing wait times for over a half a million Veterans waiting on appeals for benefits.

• Raising seed funding for Propel on Kickstarter and launching its first digital products for New Yorkers and Pennsylvanians applying for and using food assistance benefits.