Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social Writer of books. Guardian columnist. Newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com. Board member, Third Act and Oil Change International.
Yogesh @heyyyogi.bsky.social Writing about technology and society, Indian Ocean literary history and culture, ecocriticism, as well as cult classic television. Increasingly AI-sceptical. From Singapore! (he/him)
Martin Jordan @martinjordan.com Making services work better for all people—Head of Design & User Research at the German govt’s Digital Service, previously Head of #ServiceDesign at the UK’s Government Digital Service, int’l #GovDesign community co-lead, 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 ally
martinjordan.com
Gordon Guthrie @foundationsofthedigitalstate.com Just published The Foundations Of The Digital State - a report for the Scottish Government
http://foundationsofthedigitalstate.com/
and blogs at
digitalpolicy.substack.com
Politician manqué, girl group fan, code monkey
Laurence Berry @laurenceberry.bsky.social Working with teams globally to deliver services, platforms and infrastructure.
Working on service patterns with govstack.global, tools for participatory democracy at assemblis.org and advising governments through komo.international
@amberguette.bsky.social @amberguette.bsky.social 
Julia Kümper @juliakuemper.bsky.social #FeministischeWirtschaftsförderung #VerwaltungFürDemokratie
Patrick Bernau @patrick-bernau.de Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, Ressortleiter Wirtschaft & Wert.
Joe Hill @jo3hill.bsky.social Director of Strategy @re-state.bsky.social, Founder http://greaterlondon.co, Columnist in CityAM. ex Treasury. Views my own
Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social author of Blood in the Machine, tech writer, luddite
newsletter: https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/
books: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/contributor/brian-merchant/
kofi link: https://ko-fi.com/brianmerchant
Jim Cashel 🇺🇦 @jimcashel.bsky.social Tech and policy professional interested in global development, space policy, tech for good, effective government, level playing fields, overlooked ideas. 
AltSpaceForce 🚀🇺🇲 @altspaceforce.altgov.info Boldly going where no Jedi has beamed before. Earth is our spaceship.
#AltGov
Jonathan V. Last @jvl.bsky.social Editor of The Bulwark
https://www.thebulwark.com/
Host of a Secret Podcast.
Also a super double-secret podcast you can't find.
James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social More good things for everyone. Public sector appreciator. Tax and welfare policy knower. Hyperinflation doubter.
Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social Berkeley professor, former Secretary of Labor. Co-founder of @inequalitymedia.bsky.social and @imcivicaction.bsky.social.
Substack: http://robertreich.substack.com
Buy my new book: https://sites.prh.com/reich
Visit my website: https://rbreich.com/
David Eaves @eaves.ca Associate Prof & Deputy Co-Director at @iipp-ucl.bsky.social at UCL, Investment committee CoDevelop.fund, co-founder TeachingPublicService.digital.
Digital Government & Digital Public Infrastructure, ReCollect co-founder & CEO, Father, Negotiator & Learner
Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info Public health experts resisting harmful policies, fighting disinformation, and defending public health from within CDC.
Not official CDC—but close enough for transmission.
Proudly #AltGov
Tips? signal altCDC.99, email altCDCtips@proton.me or DM
Ariel Kennan @arielmai.bsky.social Building @axiom.org
Ask me about service design, public benefits, product, digital identity, Rules as Code, and civic tech / gov tech.
📍NYC
Natasha Clarke @natsclarke.bsky.social Mother of pugs
Football mom (yes this football 🏈)
Former Deputy Minister CSDS
Still doing this digital gov thing. Making progress for people one pixel at a time.
Dan Abadie @abadie.bsky.social Nerd. Sometimes in english / otras veces en español. Based in 🇦🇷
Julia Angwin @juliaangwin.com My New York Times bestseller: ON COURAGE: HOW TO BE A DISSIDENT IN AN AGE OF FEAR (HarperCollins) tinyurl.com/yxpvn488
NYTimes Opinion Writer | Director, Independent Media program HKS
Sign up for my newsletter: https://buttondown.com/JuliaAngwin
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible.
ocasiocortez.com
Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social Entrepreneur
Costplusdrugs.com
David Dagan @daviddagan.bsky.social Director of editorial and academic affairs at Niskanen Center. Read Hypertext: hypertext.niskanencenter.org. Read The Liberal Fortress: daviddagan.substack.com. Book: http://amzn.to/29rrt90. 
nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social Editor-in-chief of The Verge, host of Decoder, cohost of The Vergecast. I am in love with spectacle.
Paul Maltby @maltbyps.bsky.social I run the public service teams at Faculty AI. Previously Chief Digital Officer in UK gov. Public service reformer 
Derek Thompson @dkthomp.bsky.social derekthompson.substack.com
Alec Stapp @alecstapp.bsky.social Co-founder IFP
Rep. George Whitesides @georgewhitesides.bsky.social #CA27 Congressman. Father of two, former NASA Chief of Staff & Virgin Galactic CEO, and Cofounder of Megafire Action.
Nicholas Bagley @nbagley.bsky.social University of Michigan Law Professor
Mike Sarasti @sarasti.bsky.social Musician / Technologist / Long history in local government.
Half of RAKER - @rakermusic.bsky.social
Angelica Quicksey @angelquicksey.bsky.social 👾 Urban planner for the internet
⚡️ Managing Director @newpublic.org
🌲 Seattle is always home
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!
Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social Independent journalist.
Send tips via Signal: 202-510-1268.
Join my newsletter 👇👇👇
kenklippenstein.substack.com
David Slifka @davidslifka.bsky.social Political innovation and funding (http://Bluem.Ventures); Abundance agenda (AbundanceMap.org); Decentralized social media.
David Recordon @daveman692.bsky.social 
Dan Munz @danmunz.bsky.social Homophone. Portmanteau. Iamb. Synecdoche.
Anil Dash @anildash.com the internet's uncle • waging a victorious 2-front war against cars and christmas • big fan of being a big fan of things • go read https://anildash.com
Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social Host of the Fast politics podcast, contributing Writer at The New York Times opinion and MSNBC. Subscribe to fast politics YouTube channel
Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social Amanda Katz said this was the cool kids table.
Dustin Moskovitz @moskov.goodventures.org Co-founder at Asana and Good Ventures (a funding partner of Coefficient Giving). Strange looper. You can just build the things you want to see in the world.
“Criminally underliked”
Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social Writer and editor. Host of the newsletter Porch Party (sign up! porchpartynews.com). Ex @PostOpinions @CNN @BostonGlobe @BloomsburyUSA. Sometime poet & translator. Good eater. Parent. Bostonian by birth, New Yorker by disposition, currently in DC.
Tracy Chou @triketora.com founder @blockpartyapp.com, acq by deleteme.
harvard bkc affiliate. cofounder project include. early eng at pinterest, quora, usds. stanford bs ee and ms cs. 2022 time woman of the year.
Tom Loosemore @tomski.com Partner at Public Digital, co-founder Government Digital Service, ex-BBC. Expect occasional small boat sailing.
Dave Guarino @allafarce.bsky.social Software and complex (not complicated) systems. Pursuing the public good, sometimes with technology.
Balkans in Europe Policy Advisory Group (BiEPAG) @biepag.bsky.social Balkans in Europe Policy Advisory Group (BiEPAG) is a group of policy analysts, scholars and researchers from Western Balkans and EU.
ℹ️ www.biepag.eu
Jelena Brankovic @jelena3121.bsky.social Sociologist | Robert K. Merton Center for Science Studies | HU Berlin
Current project: https://jelenabrankovic.net/datafying-universities/
Mark Headd @mheadd.bsky.social Author of "The SpecOps Method: A New Approach to Legacy System Modernization." https://spec-ops.ai/book.html #CivicTech #AI #SpecOps #OpenData
Meredith Hitchcock @mhitchcock.bsky.social UX researcher. Passionate about trauma-informed design and research and tech for good. 
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/
Kaja Kallas @kajakallas.bsky.social EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy
Vice-President of the European Commission
Rishi Iyengar @iyengarish.bsky.social Staff Writer at Foreign Policy magazine covering (mostly) technology, via CNN, TIME, SFO-DEL-HKG-NYC-PNQ. Alliteration aficionado. Em dash enthusiast. New(ish) here.
Nicolas Gimenez @nicobao.dev Building @agoracitizen.network, https://github.com/polis-community/red-dwarf & dds.xyz
Other online presence:
https://linkedin.com/in/nicobao/
https://x.com/nicobaogim
https://fosstodon.org/@nicobao
https://github.com/nicobao
Rumman Chowdhury @ruchowdh.bsky.social www.rummanchowdhury.com
www.humane-intelligence.org
CEO & co-founder, Humane Intelligence
US Science Envoy for AI (Biden Administration)- A Alex Ryan @alexryan.bsky.social CEO Synthetikos. Helping transformational leaders to shift systems.
Jules @j0ul3.bsky.social Data and digital services for the public sector. Use evidence to build tech that works. Currently Jarvus, formerly Ad Hoc, Fjord, and Sapient. Thoughts only mine. Don’t stop, never stop. Go birds.
Ben Terrett @benterrett.bsky.social CEO of Public Digital. Former Deputy Chair of UAL. .
/benterrett everywhere else.
www.benterrett.com
Alistair Croll @acroll.bsky.social ADHD as a career. Startups (Lean Analytics, Startupfest); fixing government (FWD50); subversive thinking (justevilenough.com) Montreal, or seat 13D.
Ryan Androsoff @ryanandrosoff.bsky.social Vice-President of Learning and Leadership at Institute on Governance, Host of the Let’s Think Digital podcast.
⿻ Audrey Tang 唐鳳 @audreyt.org 2025 Right Livelihood Laureate, Senior Accelerator Fellow at Oxford's Institute for Ethics in AI, and Taiwan's founding Minister of Digital Affairs. https://cyberambassador.tw/
Matthew McNaughton @mamcnaughton.bsky.social Helping build a Jamaica and a Caribbean region that matches the ambition of our people--in one generation. Director at Co-Develop. Founder of SlashRoots Foundation.
Mariana Mazzucato @mazzucatom.bsky.social Professor in the Economics of Innovation and Public Value, University College London. Author: Entrepreneurial State, Value of Everything, Mission Economy, Big Con. Founding Director UCL Institute for Innovation & Public Purpose
www.marianamazzucato.com
DJ Patil @djpatil.bsky.social Former U.S. Chief Data Scientist
GP Great Point Ventures
Devoted Health, RelateIQ, LinkedIn
I build things 
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.
Ivan Ivanisevic @iivanisevic.bsky.social Montenegrin Ambassador to 🇫🇷🇦🇩🇲🇨🇵🇹 & Permanent Delegate of 🇲🇪 to UNESCO.
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
Cecilia Muñoz @ceciliamunoz.bsky.social Serial policy nerd: led President Obama's Domestic Policy Council after 20 years at Unidos US; now growing new NGOs. On way too many boards. Author: More Than Ready.
Marci Harris @marcidale.bsky.social POPVOX Inc / POPVOX Foundation cofounder; JD/LLM; former congress staffer; past fellowships at HKS Ash Center, New America; taught poli sci / public policy at SJSU, USF
Charles Worthington @charwo.bsky.social Product designer and software dev working to deliver better services to Veterans. CTO at the VA. Previously co-creator of the U.S. Digital Service. Dad, husband, Minnesotan living in DC. views = mine
Dan Hon @danhon.com Hi, it's me, I'm the problem etc etc
me: about.danhon.com
work: verylittlegravitas.com/
show: verylittlegravitas.com/how-people-work/live
newsletter: thingsthatcaughtmyattention.com
i made: donotreply.cards
DM or Signal danhon.1701
EmilyTav @emilytav.bsky.social Policy + design + tech. Angry optimist.
Executive Director, Home Screen.
https://www.thehomescreen.org/
Co-Curator of an oral history of the origins of the U.S. Digital Service.
https://usdigitalserviceorigins.org/
Catherine Bracy @catherinebracy.com Founder + CEO of TechEquity (techequity.us). Author of World Eaters: How Venture Capital is Cannibalizing the Economy. Long-suffering Tottenham Hotspur supporter.
Beth Simone Noveck @bethnoveck.bsky.social BLOG: https://rebootdemocracy.ai. All things AI policy, democracy, government. BIO: https://thegovlab.org/beth-simone-noveck.html. Prof #AIforImpact #InnovateUS @Northeastern @BurnesCenter @TheGovLab, Chief AI Strategist @NJGOV, @OSTP44 BLOG
Prof Jeffrey S Morris @jsm2334.bsky.social George S Pepper Professor of Public Health & Preventative Medicine; Biostats, Stats & Data Science, Lifelong learner & truth seeker; Views my own & not employer’s
The Real Truther @therealtruther.bsky.social Spreading truth about vaccines since 2015.
Aaron Ogle @atogle.com Just trying to leave this place better than I found it.
Working for social impact with tech at Google.org. The outdoors are my happy place.
@shashashasha.bsky.social @shashashasha.bsky.social 
Lou Downe @loudowne.bsky.social Founder of @theschoolofgood
Chief bean-wrangler @brodbox
Ex-Design Director of the UK Gov.
Proudly dyslexic & non-binary 🌈 they/he
Joel Riphagen @joelrip.bsky.social data analysis and visualization | affordable housing and homelessness | regionalism | open data | fiscal transparency | random observations
Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social Scholar, author, policy advisor @ IAS
Science, Technology, and Social Values Lab
https://www.ias.edu/stsv-lab
Books: The Future of Science is Civic, Auditing AI, The Social Life of DNA, Genetics & the Unsettled Past, Body & Soul, Technicolor
Michelle Thong @michellethong.bsky.social Civic technologist, urbanist, feminist, cynical optimist. VP of Product at Nava. Canadian + Californian, living in New England. 
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.
Vyki Englert @vykster.bsky.social LA / 台北
Brendan Babb @brendanbabb.bsky.social Chief Innovation Officer & i-team Director, Anchorage, Alaska | Math | DJing | Biomimicry | GenAI
Rebecca Heywood @kdyz.bsky.social Digital transformation in government | #PublicSectorJobBoard | Promoting public service careers for technologists
Amanda Daflos @amandadaflos.bsky.social Deputy Mayor @ City of Los Angeles. Former ED @ Bloomberg Center for Public Innovation at JHU. Believer in government and democracy. Lover of family, friends, nature, photography and dogs. 
Tina Walha @tjwalha.bsky.social 
John Paul Farmer @johnpaulfarmer.bsky.social Once upon a time played ⚾️ for a living
Hillary Hartley @hillaryh.bsky.social Nerding out and helping governments deliver better. 
Jovana Spremo @jovanaspremo.bsky.social Advocacy Director at Lawyers' Committee for Human Rights YUCOM
Coordinator of the NKEU Srbija WG for Chapter 23
Part of #EYL40 #IVLP2024
Views are my own 💬
Michael D. Valle @mvalle916.bsky.social Deputy Director, @hcai-ca.bsky.social. MPA @priceschool.usc.edu. Views are mine.
Zia Khan @ziakhannyc.bsky.social Brooklyn resident, Chief Innovation Officer at The Rockefeller Foundation, curious about lots
Reid Hoffman @reidhoffman.bsky.social Co-Founder of LinkedIn. Focused on using AI to find the cure for cancer, faster. Proud American.
Writing, Pod, ETC: Beacons.ai/reidhoffman
rumon carter @rumon.ca Partner. Bonuspappa. Biologist. Lawyer. Technologist. Coach. Outdoorsperson. Focused on cultivating thriving people, teams, communities and publics.
Anna Hirschfeld @annahirschfeld.bsky.social Senior Director at @PublicDigitalHQ Formerly @DWPDigital. Expect a lot of digital transformation, politics and West Wing. She/her.
Andrew Greenway @andrewgreenway.bsky.social Founder, Public Digital. Co-author of Bluffocracy. Still Countdown's most rubbish champion.
divya siddarth @divya.bsky.social