Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social I make Dad jokes on NPR and also write books and other things. 
ktb @kevinbaker.bsky.social 
Sarah Lawsky @sarahlawsky.bsky.social Law professor at UIUC, Catala team at Inria. Tax law, computational law. https://www.sarahlawsky.org/
rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social Cofounder @dreamwidth.org / disabled queer cat lady / running social media since before it was "social media" and Trust & Safety since the dawn of time / do not cite the deep magic to me, I wrote it / no, I'm allergic to that, too
Technologists for the Public Good @publicgood.tech A professional association and community for technologists that serve the public good.
https://www.publicgood.tech/
Erika McEntarfer @erikamcentarfer.bsky.social Former head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Ex-Council of Economic Advisers, Census, Treasury. Dual DC/Bay Area citizen. Personal account, all opinions my own
Shimona Carvalho @shimona.bsky.social software engineer, photographer, traveler, immigrant. ex US Digital Service, ex-fitbit.
Jean Ross @jeanmross.bsky.social Fiscal and economic policy wonk, photographer, wanderer ~ former @amprog , @fordfoundation , and @calbudgetcenter ~ now speak for myself. Californian in long-term exile in Brooklyn.
Henry Wilkinson @wilkinson.graphics Designer who knows some things about web archives, OpenStreetMap enthusiast, occasional maker of music.
Prev @webrecorder.net Currently @EQTY Lab
jenny (phire) @phirephoenix.com I write code for a living and words for my sins. occasional blog posts at https://phirephoenix.com, weekly newsletter for organizing/activism in Toronto at @showuptoronto.ca.
Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social President of Signal, Chief Advisor to AI Now Institute 
Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social Nearly 20 years in court as a law-talking guy for plaintiffs, now a mix of stuff. Posts too much about politics.
email max@kennerlylaw.com
Dave Karpf @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.beehiiv.com
Randy Hart @randyhart.bsky.social RIF’d 18F ACQStacker
Rebecca Piazza @rdpiazza.bsky.social Service delivery / Product / Public benefits / Civic tech. Strongly held opinions about DC statehood and Midwest casseroles.
Becky Sweger @bendystraw.bsky.social Principal skeeball shit talker, data engineer, current research fellow @ UMass biostatistics. Formerly Trello/Atlassian & 18F. Philadelphian turned Masshole. She/her.
danah boyd @zephoria.bsky.social STS researcher who likes to look at things sideways. Founded Data & Society.
Topics: Census | Youth | Data | Society
Professor of Communication, Cornell
https://made-not-found-by-danah-boyd.ghost.io
Alberto @albertico.bsky.social Civic technologist transforming US healthcare. Ruby enthusiast. Personal account.
Rich Prisinzano @richpriz.bsky.social Tax Policy at Yale, music, and sports
Richard Rubin @richardrubindc.bsky.social U.S. Tax Policy Reporter at The Wall Street Journal in Washington.
(On Signal richardrubindc.08)
Ann Lewis @ann-lewis.bsky.social Tech exec, former TTS Director at GSA, former @moveon.org CTO, @scsatcmu.bsky.social grad, bio/pics: https://annlewis.tech/ (Personal account)
jamelle @jamellebouie.net The real jbouie. Columnist for the New York Times Opinion section. Co-host of the Unclear and Present Danger podcast. b-boy-bouiebaisse on TikTok. jbouienyt on Twitch. National program director of the CHUM Group.
Send me your mutual aid requests.
Danielle Citron @daniellecitron.bsky.social Professor at the University of Virginia School of Law; Vice President of the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative; #MacFellow; Author of The Fight for Privacy: Protecting Dignity, Identity, and Love in the Digital Age (2022) and Hate Crimes in Cyberspace (2014) 🍋
Ron Bronson @ronbronson.com critical designer interrogating tech and civic life, hype studies & public mechanics. Asst. Prof. of Practice, UMich. ronbronson.dev
closedtab npm: https://www.npmjs.com/package/closedtab
evacide @evacide.bsky.social Director of Cybersecurity @eff.org
Co-founder of @stopstalkerware.bsky.social
These opinions are my own, not my employers’
I did a TED talk once
Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social Senior Vice President of Woke 5
Dr. Damien P. Williams is just… so tired. @wolven.blacksky.app Assistant Prof Philosophy & Data Sci.
PhD Sci., Technology, & Society
MA Philosophy & Religious Studies
"AI" Criticality; Centering Marginalized Exp. in Tech; Magic; Knowledge, Values, Beliefs
He/Him
Unless explicitly stated, not speaking for my employer
Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc Head of Research at OneProject.org. Author, Design Justice (https://design-justice.pubpub.org) + Out of the Shadows, Into the Streets. #FreePalestine. Trans agenda. She/they/ella/elle. More: https://www.schock.cc
Xena @msknee.bsky.social Designer, civic technologist + time traveling artist. Building teams + tech for the left at trestle.us. See my art at madebyxena.com!
Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski Bluesky literary crisis actor. Opinions mine.
📍Charlottesville
en / de / es
Posts autodelete after 2 days or if viral. Some posts automated.
Web:
- emilygorcenski.com
- registry.blue
Matt Henry 🥄 @matthenry.fyi Tech, law, philosophy, and abolition. Web optimist. I build design systems for governments. This is (obviously?) a personal account. he/him
John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue I work on @securedrop.org
Former fed at 18F "deleted" by DOGE
🔗 https://skiles.blue/
Dave Luetger @dlootz.bsky.social Designer in civic tech. Former 18F + NASA. Musician, video game enjoyer, and Chicagoland transplant. Mostly re-posts of people cooler than me. he/him.
Woodworking journey: @okay-woodworking.bsky.social
luetger.com // 18f.org
Alt US Digital Service @altusds.altgov.info The official resistance team of the U.S. Digital Service. We are the Builders. #AltGov
Send your stories: submissions@wethebuilders.org
https://www.wethebuilders.org/
https://givebutter.com/WTB
Kate F @k8080.bsky.social Service Design and Civic Tech /// Former 18F, Lab at OPM, IRS Direct File
Annalee @flowerhorne.com Writer, Quaker, candlestick maker. Open source technologist and occasional tailor.
Fiction in F&SF, Futurescapes, Fireside, Friends' Journal, and places that don't start with F. They.
Anne Petersen @apetersen.bsky.social Hello (including you, trolls 👋). Lead and sole full-time staff @ U.S. Web Design System (USWDS) [government / civic]; past 18F, UIC. People first. Not for you. Views mine. None of this is endorsement. South side Chicagoan. Singular (th).
Ethan Marcotte @ethanmarcotte.com designer, writer, roommate to two kittens. here’s my website: https://ethanmarcotte.com/
I think you deserve a union, and I wrote a book about that: https://youdeserveatechunion.com/
hi friend
(headshot by @elaina.bsky.social)
Matt Bowen @mattbowen.net I speak only for myself.
JP @pixelpaperyarn.bsky.social coach & mentor. writer. comics geek. baseball devotee. music nerd. tea snob. paladin.
Coaching: https://coachingwithjp.com/
Books & Zines: https://jenniferlynparsons.com/
More stuff: https://bio.link/pixelpaperyarn
I'm also @lunastation.bsky.social
Nicholas @nicholasholtz.bsky.social Baltimore, Maryland
Alt18F @alt18f.bsky.social Delivered effective, efficient, and secure digital services for the American people until we were forced to stop on March 1, 2025. Not an official government account. Reposts are not endorsements. Our new website: https://18f.org/ #AltGov
Maz Atighi @atighi.com Civic Tech / Direct File / Coder / NBA fan / 9-ball Hack / Dad / Chicagoburbian
Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social Concerned with tech, media and democracy. CEO & Editor at Tech Policy Press. Research & Adjunct Professor at NYU Tandon School of Engineering. Opinions mine.
Chye-Ching Huang @dashching.bsky.social Executive Director @taxlawcenter.org
Tax, law, policy, budget, economy. US & NZ.
Former Senior Director for Economic Policy @centeronbudget.bsky.social.
David Kamin @davidkamin.bsky.social Charles L. Denison Professor of Law, NYU School of Law; Faculty Co-Director of @taxlawcenter.org; Former Biden White House and Obama White House
Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social Personal Account. Carol Kakalec Kohn Professor of Social Policy. University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. I ❤️ surveys. I 😖Administrative Burden. My views do not represent the views of my lovely employer!
Marco Rogers @polotek.bsky.social Web developer, movie buff, and pretty much the best guy you know.
Rohan Grey @rohangrey.bsky.social Aussie into money & finance, technology, political economy, culture, public governance, pedagogy etc.
Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app Personal Account
Author: Deep Unlearning (you can now preorder at https://shorturl.at/sCdjl)
Founder: The Distributed AI Research Institute (https://dair-institute.org)
Eric Mill @konklone.com What is me? Who are I going?? The answers and more!!
Currently making Wikipedia safer. Been around the block a time or two: https://konklone.com (This is a personal account.)
Erie Meyer @erie.bsky.social Former Chief Technologist at cfpb
@amy-paris.bsky.social @amy-paris.bsky.social This is a bad idea. Populo Servimus. Nostra Coclearia Strangulant Tyrannos. 🥄 🦀 💪🏻 🇺🇲
Alex Engler @alexengler.bsky.social Towards a healthier information ecosystem and a stronger democracy.
Executive Director @penn-mediated.bsky.social @upenn.edu
Alum: DemTech at NSC; AI Policy at OSTP; Brookings; Urban Institute; Taught at UChicago & Georgetown
Ryan Calo @rcalo.bsky.social I am a law professor and information scientist at the University of Washington. I have a new book about law and technology that I hope you read. 💙
Mollie @mebates.bsky.social Designer at Google Chrome. NE DC resident/parent/cyclist desperate for cars to stop at stop signs.
Paul Tagliamonte @pault.ag he/him ⁂ purveyor of fine bike sheds ⁂ Debian Developer ⁂ Hy ⁂ playing with SDRs as K3XEC ⁂ formerly: board @ OSI
Find me on the fediverse at https://soylent.green/@paul
EmilyTav @emilytav.bsky.social Policy + design + tech. Angry optimist.
Executive Director, Home Screen.
Co-Curator of an oral history of the origins of the U.S. Digital Service.
Daniel Schuman @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/
Rebecca Williams @rebeccawilliams.info Tech policy, civics, art.
Privacy @ACLU.org · Board @MuckRock.com · Teaching @PrattiSchool.bsky.social
rebeccawilliams.info · rebecca.411 on Signal
Dave Guarino @allafarce.bsky.social Software and complex (not complicated) systems. Pursuing the public good, sometimes with technology.
Marina Nitze @marinanitze.bsky.social Co-author, Crisis Engineering & Hack Your Bureaucracy. Crisis engineer at Layer Aleph. Listmaker at TaskTackler. Former CTO of U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
Jacob Harris @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
Aaron Snow @aaronsnow.net Led 18F/TTS and the Canadian Digital Service. Presidential Innovation Fellow, Georgetown's Beeck Center, VoProPartners. 216 for life, unlikely to shut up about the Cavs. The dadjokes don't stop just b/c they've grown & gone. https://aaronsnow.net/hi
Marvourneen K. Dolor, PhD @mkdolor.com Helping leaders understand what's actually going on in their organizations and focus their energy where it matters.
My full "Leadership Operating System." No email address required: https://articles.mkdolor.com/leadership-operating-system
Jared Cunha @jaredcunha.com Civic technologist, engineering manager, amateur photographer, lover of food, designer turned engineer, accessibility person, Shiba Inu fan
https://jaredcunha.com/
Will Slack @wslack.bsky.social
Decatur GA native, prev USDS/18F & hospital tech around the US. Opinions mine; RTs/likes/follows ≠ endorsements. 🆇: @wslack 🐘: wslack@infosec.exchange
Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social Away for a while. Making and mending networks and knowledge. Working and thinking at wrecka.ge, co-running a volunteer unbreak-the-news collective at @unbreaking.org.
Previously: Covid Tracking Project, OpenNews, old web nonsense.
Christopher Whitaker @civicwhitaker.com Civic Technologist | Executive Director, Alliance of Civic Technologists | Army Veteran | Alumni of Code for America, Defense Digital Service and USDS #civictech #chicago #illinois
Really doesn’t like bullies
Signal: civicwhitaker.53
Waldo Jaquith @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, Biden administration, GSA, and Treasury. He/him. Charlottesville, VA, USA.
Cyd Harrell @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)
ex-18F; on the board @publicgood.tech ; wrote a small book about doing this: https://cydharrell.com/book/
Chris Kuang @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
Vanessa Williamson @vanessawilliamson.bsky.social Author of "The Price of Democracy: The Revolutionary Power of Taxation in American History." Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution & Tax Policy Center.
Lynn Overmann @lynnovermann.bsky.social Tech & policy nerd, recovering public defender, DC native, #ALLCAPS fan. Executive Director @beeckcenter.bsky.social Georgetown. May the force be with you, always. Views my own.
beeckcenter.georgetown.edu
Lindsay @not-young.bsky.social Director 18F, formerly Sunlight Foundation
Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social Founder & reigning monarch at TPM. Lapsed historian. Hand tool woodworker. Jew.
Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social Policy Professor, Ford School, University of Michigan.
Irish immigrant. Administrative burdens guy.
Free newsletter, Can We Still Govern?: https://donmoynihan.substack.com
Merici @merici.bsky.social there’s no rule that says you can’t rewrite all the rules
Currently: Fellow. Ex: US Digital Service, CFPB, Ideo. co-founder Ada’s List
DC via London, Boulder, and the Sandhills of Nebraska
Direct File fan account