Seeyew Mo is a 2022 Congressional Innovation Fellow who is serving with Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) and working on issues related to cybersecurity, technology, and national security. Before joining TechCongress, Seeyew was a Tech Lead at Salesforce, where he led engineers who created mobile features used by millions. He is also a community organizer and co-founded an advocacy group to organize and empower families. In this episode, we sit down with Seeyew to talk about his journey to TechCongress and what being a civic technologist means to him ..read more

Jennifer Hernandez is a 2022 Congressional Innovation Fellow who is serving with the newly created House Digital Service, where she is helping to create a data roadmap and proof of concept that enables data-driven decision-making for the House. Before joining TechCongress, Jen was the City of Miami’s first Senior Data Scientist. She enabled fact-based decision-making, applied machine learning models to improve government services, and prototyped data solutions that leverage cutting-edge technologies In this episode, we sit down with Jen to talk about her journey to TechCongress and what being ..read more

Christian Perez is a 2022 Congressional Innovation Fellow who is serving with Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) and working on issues related to Medicaid data analysis, healthcare data privacy, and public health IT/surveillance modernization efforts. Christian utilizes artificial intelligence to research emerging environmental health issues at the Center of Research Excellence in Science and Technology at Florida International University, where he is a current Ph.D. Candidate in Public Health. In this episode, we sit down with Christian to talk about his journey to TechCongress and what being a civic t ..read more

Ro Encarnacion is a 2022 Congressional Innovation Fellow who is serving with Rep. Yvette Clarke (D-NY-09) and working on issues related to technology and justice. Before joining TechCongress, Ro was an engineer at Stanford University working on a social impact tool for equity in representation across media and journalism. She is an alumna of Lehman College with a B.A. in Computer Science. In this episode, we sit down with Ro to talk about her journey to TechCongress and what being a civic technologist means to her ..read more

For our second episode of our Public Interest Tech (PIT) Series podcast, we sit down with Andreen Soley, the Director of the Public Interest Technology University Network, or PIT-UN, at New America. She has twenty years of experience working in the higher education and nonprofit sectors, and has made an incredible impact at organizations such as the City University of New York’s JFK, Jr. Institute for Worker Education Program (IWE) and Worker Education Resource Center in Los Angeles. Before joining New America, she had been working with Mount Saint Mary’s University to develop a university-wid ..read more

Jennifer Anastasoff is the founding member of the U.S. Digital Service at the White House and served as Head of People until late 2017. She co-founded and served as founding CEO of Fuse Corps, the nation’s top executive fellowship bringing mid-career leaders from the private sector to serve as senior advisors to public executives, largely to mayors and governors. She is also the Founder and Executive Director of the Tech Talent Project, a nonpartisan, nonprofit project dedicated to increasing the ability of the U.S. government to recruit modern technical leaders.  In the first episode of ..read more

Want to learn more about the Congressional Innovation Fellowship or Scholars Program? Interested in getting some tips about the 2022 application? Intrigued about how to break through into policy? Listen to a recording of one of our info calls, hosted by Founder and Director, Travis Moore, to learn all that and more!  ..read more

Weren't able to attend our second informational call for one of our 2023 Fellowships? No worries, we recorded it for you! Listen to this episode to get more details on the application process, fellowship experience, and what our fellows have learned during their time as a TechCongress fellow in Congress.  ..read more

Weren't able to attend our informational calls for one of our 2023 Fellowships? No worries, we recorded it for you! Listen to this episode to get more details on the application process, fellowship experience, and what our fellows have learned during their time as a TechCongress fellow in Congress.  ..read more

Maia Hamin is a 2022 Congressional Innovation Fellow who is serving with Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) and working on issues related to privacy, cybersecurity, and the oversight and transparency of data use. Before joining TechCongress, Maia was a Privacy and Civil Liberties Engineer at Palantir. At Princeton, she published on scalable data collection for policy research and explanatory models of cognitive processes. In this episode, we sit down with Maia to talk about her journey to TechCongress and what being a civic technologist means to her ..read more