Jennifer Pahlka

Co-Founder and Board Member, U.S. Digital Response

Jennifer Pahlka is the author of Recoding America: Why Government is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better. She served as deputy chief technology officer of the United States and a member of the Defense Innovation Board during the Obama and Trump administrations. She founded the award-winning nonprofit Code for America, which she led for ten years. Pahlka is the winner of a Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship and was selected by Wired magazine as one of the people who have most shaped technology and society in the past twenty-five years.