civic tech, data, and design starter pack
This is an incomplete list of the people on this platform at the intersection of civic tech, data, and design, which includes both practitioners and researchers.
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@jaeyeonkim.bsky.social
@marlenamedford.bsky.social
#Civictech evangelist. Former journalist & public servant. Comms Director @codeforamerica.org. Views are mine.
@maredwards.bsky.social
Service Design and user research things 🇨🇦 🇬🇧 Tweets are my own and don't reflect who I might work for or with
@jessimurray.bsky.social
I’m a Chief Product Officer in civic tech with a focus on equity and meeting people where they are. I have cute corgi and too many hobbies. Former progressive challenger. Personal account MA > WA > MA again
@futuresmartcity.bsky.social
@americalabs.org
Progressive institutionalist with an interest in modernizing Congress and strengthening our democracy. Bluesky is my penance for working at an org that once encouraged Congress to tweet. Like what you see? More at https://firstbranchforecast.substack.com/
@wonyoungso.bsky.social
PhD candidate at MIT DUSP studying #race #equity #data #tech #housing. Currently Data + Feminism Lab at MIT. he/him.
@apetersen.bsky.social
Hello (including you, trolls 👋). Lead @ U.S. Web Design System / government / civic; past 18F, Penn State. People first. Pronouns: they/them. Not for you. Views mine. South side Chicagoan.
@michellethong.bsky.social
Civic technologist, urbanist, feminist, cynical optimist. VP of Product at Nava. Canadian + Californian, living in New England.
@rmichaelalvarez.bsky.social
Election science pioneer. Prof at Caltech. rmichaelalvarez.com
@beta.nyc
We help New Yorkers access information & use technology. We want New York’s governments to work for the people, by the people, for the digital era. #civictech #opendata #pitech beta.nyc/links
@axz.bsky.social
Professor of social computing at UW CSE, leading @socialfutureslab.bsky.social social.cs.washington.edu
@mkinthehouse.bsky.social
Alpine Masters racer, civic tech software engineer with U.S. Digital Response.
@chriskuang.com
Empowering the next generation of civic technologists @ U.S. Digital Corps. Boston sports, good reads, and more. Views mine. Breaking into civic tech guide: chriskuang.com/civictech
@renzheyu.bsky.social
Assistant Professor @columbiauniversity.bsky.social | Responsible AI and educational equity | He/him renzheyu.com
@robvoigt.bsky.social
using computational methods to understand the linguistic mechanisms of social problems | NLP, socioling, discourse-pragmatics | asst prof at Northwestern Linguistics https://faculty.wcas.northwestern.edu/robvoigt/
@flokeppeler.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at http://ps.au.dk/en/cpl | enthusiastic for public management, policy and HRM | fan of beagle Wilma http://florian-keppeler.com
@zacharylhertz.bsky.social
Political science PhD student at UC Berkeley studying race, elections, and political behavior. em dash appreciator.
@eostrinidad.bsky.social
@UCBerkeley Asst Prof of Educ Policy | @UChicago PhD Sociology & Human Dev | sociologist of education, policy, and org change
@shirokuriwaki.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Political Science, Yale University. I study elections and representation, American Politics, and applied statistics. www.shirokuriwaki.com
@tinalaw.bsky.social
assistant professor of sociology @ ucdavis | northwestern phd | race, inequality, democracy, cities, AI, computational methodology https://tina-law.github.io/
@areddie.bsky.social
Associate Research Professor @goldmanschool @ucberkeley; Founder @berkeleyrisk
@pamelametz.bsky.social
Dir of Chapter Development @scholars.org. Founding Associate Director, Harvard Inequality & Social Policy (1998-2021)🚢 🔸 scholars.org/staff/pamela-metz
@beamagistro.bsky.social
Incoming Assistant Prof @Northeastern & Postdoc @Caltech. Poli Sci PhD @UW. 🇮🇹🇪🇺🇺🇸🇨🇦, political economy & behavior, methods, AI, ⚽️, Juventus, foodie.
@juhokim.bsky.social
Professor in the School of Computing at KAIST. HCI and Human-AI Interaction researcher. Director of kixlab.org. juhokim.com
@dennisfeehan.bsky.social
I'm an associate prof at UC Berkeley, where I study demography, social networks, and quantitative methodology.
@darazed.bsky.social
@benfifield.bsky.social
@mollyow.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Political Science | University of Chicago
@guoxu.bsky.social
Associate Professor in Business and Public Policy at @BerkeleyHaas | Political Economy, Econ History, Organizations www.guoxu.org
@ddimmery.com
social science methods: experiments, stats, ML. has read over a dozen books
@soubhikbarari.bsky.social
Quantitative social scientist. Pronounced like “show biz”. Currently at NORC (National Opinion Research Center), ex-SurveyMonkey, Harvard. Opinions mine only. 🖥️ https://soubhikbarari.com ✍️ https://somewhatunlikely.substack.com
@aschrock.bsky.social
Academic Editor & Writing Coach at https://www.indeliblevoice.com ・Communication and/or technology researcher・Author of "Politics Recoded" (MIT Press 2024) 🤖・Foodie 🍲・Nature boi 🌲・Cancer caregiver 🎗️・They/he・All links at https://bio.site/aure
@adasgupta.bsky.social
Political scientist at UC-Merced working on topics in political economy/development/econ history. Run the Political Economy of Agriculture and Rural Societies (PEARS) lab. https://aditya-dasgupta.com
@ellaudet.bsky.social
Political Scientist | Associate Professor @Suffolk | Harvard PhD | Co-author of Data Analysis for Social Science (with Kosuke Imai): bit.ly/dss_textbook
@linstonwin.bsky.social
senior lecturer in statistics, penn NYC & Philadelphia https://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~winston
@williamis.bsky.social
Research Scientist @DeepMind | Previously @OSFellows & @hrdag. RT != endorsements. Opinions Mine. Pronouns: he/him
@nicolewu.bsky.social
Assistant professor of political science at the University of Toronto. Previously @ Michigan & Princeton. Political economy of job automation/technology & globalization. http://nicolewu.com
@jkalla.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Political Science and Data Science at Yale. Pittsburgh native.
@profsorelle.bsky.social
Assistant Prof @ Duke Sanford | Author of Democracy Declined: The Failed Politics of Consumer Financial Protection | Aspiring Renaissance woman
@eredmil1.bsky.social
Faculty @Georgetown, Faculty Associate @BKCHarvard Digital security, "AI", safety, privacy, S*x W*rk Prev @MSFTresearch @Meta @umdcs @nsfgrfp @datascifellows
@djgalvin.bsky.social
Professor of Political Science, Northwestern University. Labor politics & policy, alt-labor, wage theft, APD & APE. https://sites.northwestern.edu/danieljgalvin/
@cydharrell.bsky.social
cyberpunk is a warning, not a manual she/her. dayjob & usual location: City & County of San Francisco (this is a personal account) on the board at Technologists for the Public Good; wrote a small book about doing this: https://cydharrell.com/book/
@msalganik.bsky.social
Professor of Sociology, Princeton, www.princeton.edu/~mjs3 Author of Bit by Bit: Social Research in the Digital Age, bitbybitbook.com
@aasiegel.bsky.social
Associate Prof. University of Colorado Boulder MENA Politics & Computational Social Science alexandra-siegel.com
@alexleavitt.bsky.social
Principal researcher for Trust & Safety @Roblox & Visiting Fellow @CHAI_Berkeley. 🏳️🌈🐈⬛🏳️⚧️ Ex-@Meta, PhD @USCAnnenberg. 日本語でOK!
@chloethurston.bsky.social
Political scientist @ Northwestern. American political development and political economy. Politics of housing, credit, and debt. New Book: The Political Development of American Debt Relief.
@awhf.bsky.social
Columbia SIPA professor studying labor policy, politics of policy design, and political economy. Co-director of Consortium on American Political Economy & Columbia Labor Lab. Former Biden-Harris Department of Labor and Office of Management and Budget.
@chrishwiggins.bsky.social
.edu: associate professor @columbia; .org: cofounder @hackNY; .com: chief data scientist @nytimes; books: http://amzn.to/3J1tFnr
@nilou.bsky.social
hci+ai, social computing co-founder/cpo @Across AI prof @UC Berkeley gif whisperer | 🐱🐱 mom 👩🏻🏫 niloufar.org 👩🏻💻 across.ai | https://bsky.app/profile/across-ai.bsky.social
@gaborbekes.bsky.social
Economics Associate Prof, CEU Vienna. Trade, applied IO, organisations. sites.google.com/site/bekesg Author, "Data Analysis for Business, Economics, and Policy" (Cambridge UP) https://gabors-data-analysis.com/ @arsenalfc fan.
@jacobhacker.bsky.social
Professor of Political Science; co-director, Ludwig Program on Public Leadership, Yale Law School; co-leader, Consortium on American Political Economy (CAPE); director, Yale American Political Economy eXchange (APEX); jacobhacker.com
@povertyscholar.bsky.social
Prof @Cornell studying: power, poverty, racism, policy (health & housing) |Author: Fragmented Democracy: Medicaid, Federalism & Unequal Politics |Builder|Believer
@jessicahullman.bsky.social
Ginni Rometty Prof @NorthwesternCS | Fellow @NU_IPR | Uncertainty + decisions | Humans + AI/ML | Blog @statmodeling
@jatucker.bsky.social
Politics Prof, NYU; Director @NYUJordanCenter for Adv Study of #Russia; Co-Director NYU Center for Social Media and Politics @CSMaP_NYU (http://csmapnyu.org); long suffering NY Mets fan; @j_a_tucker on other platforms; he/him
@timoreilly.bsky.social
Founder & CEO, O'Reilly Media. Doing my best to help good futures happen.
@dacemoglumit.bsky.social
Institute Professor, MIT Economics. Co-Director of @mitshapingwork.bsky.social. Author of Why Nations Fail, The Narrow Corridor, and Power & Progress.
@randomwalker.bsky.social
Princeton computer science prof. I write about the societal impact of AI, tech ethics, & social media platforms. https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~arvindn/ BOOK: AI Snake Oil. https://www.aisnakeoil.com/
@ruha9.bsky.social
✍🏽 • RACE AFTER TECHNOLOGY: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code • VIRAL JUSTICE: How We Grow the World We Want • IMAGINATION: A Manifesto 📚www.ruhabenjamin.com
@karenho.bsky.social
Art crime and business reporter at ARTnews. Owner of a floofy dog. Canadian. Doomscrolling Reminder Lady. Confidential tips can be sent to kho at ARTnews.com or karenkho.45 on Signal
@mmitchell.bsky.social
Researcher trying to shape AI towards positive outcomes. ML & Ethics +birds. Generally trying to do the right thing. TIME 100 | TED speaker | Senate testimony provider | Navigating public life as a recluse. Former: Google, Microsoft; Current: Hugging Face
@brendannyhan.bsky.social
Dartmouth political scientist and Bright Line Watch co-director. Previously Upshot NYT / CJR contributor, Spinsanity co-founder, All the President's Spin co-author. https://sites.dartmouth.edu/nyhan/ http://brightlinewatch.org
@juliaangwin.com
Investigative journalist. New York Times Contributing Opinion Writer. Founder, Proof News, The Markup. Priors: ProPublica, WSJ. Fellow at Harvard Shorenstein Center. Signal: Julia.368 Sign up for my newsletter: https://buttondown.com/JuliaAngwin
@meredithmeredith.bsky.social
President of Signal, Chief Advisor to AI Now Institute
@tanukumar.com
intl. development: civic participation, housing, digital technology, and urban politics. assistant prof at CGU www.tanukumar.com
@alexstephenson.me
@brianckeegan.com
{Social, Data, Network, Information} Scientist at @cuboulder.info High-tempo collaboration, information commons, public interest data science. Born at 345ppm. https://www.brianckeegan.com/ Signal: brianckeegan.26
@joshdata.me
Civic technologist and engineering manager. Founder @govtrack.us. More active at https://mastodon.joshdata.me/@josh.
@whereshj.bsky.social
Design, product, org building for the public interest. Principal Designer, Nava PBC. Founder, Code for Boston. Former MA state gov @ MA Digital and MBTA. #twindad. Likes pushing boulders uphill.
@aaronsnow.net
Led 18F/TTS and the Canadian Digital Service. Presidential Innovation Fellow, Georgetown University Beeck Center, VoProPartners. Believelander in DC. The dadjokes don't stop just because they've grown and gone. https://aaronsnow.net/hi
@thebestsophist.bsky.social
Design director @ Office of Regulatory & Oversight Systems / TTS.
@noneck.org
Be realistic; demand the impossible! Orion's father; Lauren's partner; @beta.nyc's Executive Director; 20+ years in Public Interest Tech; NYC COPIC Member; #ASL beginner; #OpenData; #civictech; #PiTech; 🇵🇷; #BikeNYC; Opinion = Own
@emilymbender.bsky.social
Book: https://thecon.ai Web: https://faculty.washington.edu/ebender
@emilytav.bsky.social
Policy + design + tech. Angry optimist. Teaching + researching at Georgetown McCourt School of Public Policy. Co-Curator of an oral history of the origin of the US Digital Service // ex: @usds @whitehouse @ashoka
@jacobharr.is
Former Twitter user, but I left when it became a Nazi bar. Made the nytimes Twitter bot, worked for the NYT before moving into civic technology. Living in Takoma Park, MD and fighting for a hopeful and humane future. (He/him) More info at jacobharr.is
@danhon.com
Hi, it's me, I'm the problem etc etc me: https://about.danhon.com i make: https://donotreply.cards work: https://verylittlegravitas.com/ my hallway track: https://verylittlegravitas.com/hallway-track DM or Signal danhon.1701
@luigi.land
Keep the civic in civic tech. Launch a public option for everything. Abolish the lottery.
@waldo.net
Thought follower. Public servant. Male software developer. Alumnus of 18F, the Obama White House, Georgetown's Beeck Center, U.S. Digital Response, the Biden-Harris Transition Team, and the Biden administration. He/him. Charlottesville, VA, USA.
@ryanjgallag.com
Applied scientist trying to make the internet a little better. PhD. Platform manipulation, deceptive behaviors, disinformation, networks, fingerstyle guitar. I use my hair to express myself. He/they
@ryanakoch.com
Host of Civic Tech Chat https://civictech.chat Nerdy for all things tech, political science, and public policy
@sgonzalezbailon.bsky.social
Professor of Communication @AnnenbergSchool, UPenn | Director, Center for Information Networks and Democracy, cind.asc.upenn.edu | sandragonzalezbailon.net
@daveasiegel.bsky.social
Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at Duke University. Associate Editor (Formal Theory) of the AJPS. daveasiegel.com
@davekarpf.bsky.social
Political Communication Professor at GWU. I write a lot about the history and future of tech and politics. Best known for that one time I made fun of Bret Stephens. Davekarpf.substack.com
@allafarce.bsky.social
Software and complex (not complicated) systems. Pursuing the public good, sometimes with technology.
@katestarbird.bsky.social
Researcher of online rumors & disinformation. Former basketball player. Prof at University of Washington, HCDE. Co-founder of the UW Center for an Informed Public. Personal account: Views may not reflect those of my employer. #RageAgainstTheBullshitMachine
@jbarofsky.bsky.social
Associate Research Professor, Better Government Lab, Georgetown University, Interested in the economics of health and poverty; formerly @ideas42 @Brookings and @USCPrice Schaeffer Center, alum of @HarvardChanSPH & @BU
@dupatton.bsky.social
Schwartz University Professor at UPenn| SAFElab and PCIIT Founding Director| Studying Gun violence, AI Ethics, Youth and Mental Health, Grief, Social Media and Joy.
@dfreelon.bsky.social
Allan Randall Freelon Sr. Prof. & Presidential Prof. of Communication @AnnenbergPenn. If you can't tell the difference between what's true and what you wish were true, take your business elsewhere.
@merbroussard.bsky.social
Critical AI, data journalism, literary nonfiction. NYU professor. Author, "More Than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech." meredithbroussard.com
@djpatil.bsky.social
Former U.S. Chief Data Scientist GP Great Point Ventures Devoted Health, RelateIQ, LinkedIn I build things
@ruchowdh.bsky.social
www.rummanchowdhury.com www.humane-intelligence.org CEO & co-founder, Humane Intelligence US Science Envoy for AI (Biden Administration)
@zittrain.bsky.social
A small creature who likes to run around in universities. Prof. Harvard Law School, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and Harvard Kennedy School. EFF Board. Director of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society and the HLS Library.
@benzevgreen.bsky.social
Assistant professor in the University of Michigan School of Information. https://www.benzevgreen.com
@shugars.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Communication @ Rutgers University. Computational social science, political communication, civic studies. First gen. They/them
@angelamczhou.bsky.social
assistant prof at USC Data Sciences and Operations; phd Cornell ORIE. data-driven decision-making, operations research/management, causal inference, algorithmic fairness/equity angelamzhou.github.io