May 2025 – Present · 10 mos

• Advising the NCOC on their current programs, including the Civic Health Index Report

Jan 2025 – Jun 2025 · 5 mos

• I helped Crosscourt Ventures evaluate AI-powered solutions for government.

Sep 2024 – Present · 1 yr 6 mos

• Advising early stage startups incubated at North Carolina State University on commercialization strategies

Sep 2024 – Present · 1 yr 6 mos

• Serving as mentor for our product management mentorship program

Sep 2024 – Aug 2025 · 11 mos

• I advised the founding team at CivicReach on a voice-based AI platform for government service delivery.

Jul 2024 – Jun 2025 · 11 mos

• I advised Zencity's C-Suite on their GTM strategy and execution.

Jun 2024 – May 2025 · 11 mos

• I worked with ReD to research and develop a new software product that leverages novel wearable hardware and AI to collect and synthesize egocentric data for customer research.

Mar 2023 – Jun 2024 · 1 yr 3 mos

• I co-founded and led the Center for Product Development at Child Mind Institute for the Science team. I built and led a cross-functional team of 100+ researchers, engineers, data scientists, designers, and marketers focused on the development of 4 products: an AI powered journaling app (Mirror Journal), an AR-enhanced behavioral activation game (Kandoo), a gesture recognition wearable for body-focused repetitive behaviors (Helios), and a mental health assessment platform (Curious, formerly Mindlogger). I also served as Program Director for Next Generation Digital Therapeutics, a $75M innovation grant from the State of California's Children and Youth Behavioral Health Initiative.

Sep 2019 – Jan 2023 · 3 yrs 4 mos

• As General Manager and Head of Product for Public Agency (Government), I built and led a cross-functional team of 20 in supporting over 30K public agencies on the platform. I defined a clear vision and roadmap for the team, managed the team and our partners through the Covid-19 public health crisis, and launched a new revenue-generating business line with service providers.
• During the Covid-19 pandemic, we onboarded hundreds of federal, regional, state, and local public health and emergency management agencies including: the White House and the US Department of Health and Human Services (including the CDC and NIH); 20+ U.S. governors including Gavin Newsom, Gina Raimondo, and John Bel Edwards; mayors across the world including Muriel Bowser, Lori Lightfoot, and Sadiq Khan; and national governments and NGOs in Canada, United Kingdom, France, and Italy. Through these partnerships, we were able to deliver billions of views (+250% YoY) of trusted information about Covid-19 to over 50 million neighbors globally during the height of the pandemic.
• I also worked on our broader strategy for organizations (government agencies, civic organizations, and small businesses), and led a research and development initiative focused on classifying and generating high quality content from local creators.

Jun 2017 – Jan 2019 · 1 yr 7 mos · Greater New York City Area

• I worked with the co-founders of Hangar on their overall strategy and positioning, and helped the co-founders of Cornea develop an early prototype of the service and pitch it to the federal government.

May 2016 – Jan 2020 · 3 yrs 8 mos

• I advised the Knowledge and Insights team at the Obama Foundation on public engagement and technology. Our research helped shape Civic Nation and programs like Community Leadership Corps and Change Collective.

Jun 2015 – Jul 2019 · 4 yrs 1 mo

• I was a Subject Matter Expert on public engagement technology for 100 Resilient Cities. Neighborland was also a Platform Partner, and supported resilience plans in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Washington DC.

Jun 2014 – Oct 2017 · 3 yrs 4 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• I mentored the GetCalFresh founding team, and several of the accelerator companies. GetCalFresh enabled 1M+ Californians, particularly vulnerable groups such as older adults, people with disabilities, and those experiencing homelessness, to access vital nutrition benefits.

Jun 2012 – Oct 2017 · 5 yrs 4 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• I mentored several companies in Matter classes 1-5, including NextRequest (acquired by CivicPlus), Pop (acquired by Buzzfeed), Louder (acquired by Change.org).

Jun 2010 – Jan 2023 · 12 yrs 7 mos

• I co-founded Neighborland, a communications platform (SaaS) that helped government agencies, civic organizations, universities, and real estate developers to collaborate with their constituents in an accessible, participatory, and equitable way. As a social enterprise, Neighborland worked with over 200 city agencies, universities, foundations, and non-profits across the U.S. Over 3M U.S. residents participated on Neighborland projects, and these projects have yielded over $700b in social and economic impact to date. Neighborland was acquired by Nextdoor in September of 2019.

Mar 2007 – Jul 2009 · 2 yrs 4 mos

• I was a Director of User Experience at Yahoo, working for the Marketplaces and Advertising Platform teams. As a Director of UX, I led product design and research for Yahoo Autos and Real Estate. I also directed the integration of the Right Media Exchange ($650m acquisition) into Yahoo’s core advertising platform. I focused on recruiting exceptional design talent into the company (12 product designers), and built high performing, distributed design teams across offices in New York, Silicon Valley, and Los Angeles.

Sep 2003 – Mar 2007 · 3 yrs 6 mos

• I was a Creative Director for Aol’s entertainment division where I recruited, hired, and managed over 30 product designers and production staff in Aol’s Design Studio, based in New York. I was the Product Design Lead for several of the company’s most successful products, including Aol Music. In 2007, I led a small, internal team of designers and developers on Aol’s platform-wide pattern library and visual redesign. Aol ran its Media business on this platform for five years, and it supported an audience of 250 million people, delivering over $2b in advertising revenue annually for the company.