Building multi-sector partnerships to institutionalize practices of transparent and participatory organizations.● Integrating civic tech into World Bank Global Partnership for Social Accountability ● Supporting FCDO's FTHub initiative on data for COVID vaccine rollouts ● Run monthly workshop series to educate and connect community driven data governance Previously:● Worked with the government of UAE to locate and open 5,000 datasets● Ran a seven-emirate open data challenge to grow the civic tech community in UAE ● Ran continent-wide open data conference for government of Ghana

First employee in a $50million partnership between The Rockefeller Foundation and Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth to serve as a platform for partnerships to build the field of data science for social impact.● Supported strategic vision, operational planning and execution, and the recruitment, training, and management of teammates, contractors, vendors, and project partners.● Led the design and partnerships for execution of $10mm Inclusive Growth and Recovery Challenge

Serve as strategic engagement lead as part of the President’s Open Data agenda, advancing policy, partnerships, and programs in the area of data accessibility and application for international development. ● Co-founder of the Africa Open Data Jam and ongoing Africa Open Data Community. Convened multi-sector partners and government of Sierra Leone to commit to prototyping new open data initiatives. Engagement continues with monthly calls, intermittent meetups across the globe, and online discussions.● Co-developer of the inaugural Africa Open Data Conference: The first regional open data conference in Africa co-led by a government. Partnered with World Bank and Government of Tanzania.● Core founder of Global Open Data Agriculture & Nutrition(GODAN): Coalition of 160 organizations encompassing global government, multi-national corporations, foundations, content experts, data scientists, and end users from frontline healthcare workers to smallholder farmers improving policy and partnerships to increase the availability and application of open data relevant to food security and nutrition.● Co-designed and ran the inaugural Community Data Event launching a series of global events in the lead-up to the 2016 World Data Forum for Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) #17: The Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data charged with developing and sustaining partnerships that use data to achieve goals more quickly and monitor progress for greater accountability. www.data4sdgs.org ● Engineered the formation of pilot to inform the development of USAID’s Development Data Library, an organization-wide interactive open source platform for all data collected under USAID’s Open Data Policy.● Provide subject matter expertise on USAID and USG policy documents including the USAID's Open Data Policy and Open Access Policy, U.S. Open Government National Action Plans, commitments to the Data Revolution, and the International Open Data Charter.

Coordinating Open Data Policy & leading Administrative Data sharing policy with individuals and offices across an international bureaucracy. Developing work plans and hiring a team within the Lab and with data stewards across D.C. and eighty field offices for open data and and data-driven decision-making in development, Leading the pilot of an organization-wide interactive open source platform for publication and community engagement on development data policies. Experience catalyzing and incubating new activities including: sponsored round one Presidential Innovation Fellow thereby designating USAID as a flagship initiative, designed and ran the first Open Data TechCamp and USAID’s first hackathon “Hacking for Hunger”, and mapped twenty years of public-private partnerships in USAID’s first interactive online database. Strategic design and leadership including: sixty-partner Global Open Data Agriculture & Nutrition initiative, 2012 G8 Hunger Summit innovation session, 2013 G8 International Conference on Open Agriculture & Nutrition Data, USAID Open Government strategy, Innovation Pillar of USAID Forward, and communications and engagement strategy for the office of Innovation & Development Alliances.

Innovation Office of the Secretary – Innovation Staff May ‘09 – Feb ‘11Supported Secretary Clinton’s 21st Century Statecraft policy that incorporates communications technologies in diplomacy. Strategized and executed programmatic and communications implementations including mWomen initiative, Text4Baby, i20 conference, humanrights.gov and Tech@State conferences for disaster response in Haiti, Mobile Money, Civil Society 2.0, mWomen, Open Source, and TechCamp: Santiago. Managed daily operations of the Senior Advisor for Innovation. Award: “Innovation in Government” for flagship TechCamp

U.S. and host-country government, industry, and civil society representatives toward increasing access to telecommunications in Sub-Saharan Africa across a forty-eight country portfolio.

Google - Technical Program Manager Intern Mountain View, CA - May – Aug ’07Open Source Programs Office: Coordinated with U.S. universities and IBM to adopt parallel computing courseOur Stories OLPC Co-Country Lead for Nigeria: Multi-sector partnership for youth-led oral histories Global Public Policy and Government Affairs: Research on increasing access to independent media in Zimbabwe