Austin Tech Alliance is a nonpartisan nonprofit that advocates for civic engagement in Austin’s tech sector. I started at ATA in 2017, running their programs in partnership with the City of Austin, and eventually became executive director. 

In that role, I ran the day-to-day, including taking care of financials, managing a small staff and interns, running board meetings, writing press and content, creating social media, plan and execute in-person and digital monthly events, fundraise, brainstorm new products, and more. 

ATA has over 70 member companies and thousands of individual members. They are supported by the work I did to raise awareness of civics in Austin’s tech scene. 

This awareness came in many forms: 

• speaking at community events about policies that affect our community

• conducting user interviews to understand how best to build products for residents and our user base

• working with offsite development teams to create civic tech for our community

• and more!

In my role running programs, I worked with design and research teams to create Paper Census and informed.vote.