Unlearning Economics @unlearnecon.bsky.social Economist, YouTuber, gamer, author, academic (in that order)
Aurin Chowdhury MPLS City Council Member W12 @aurinmpls.bsky.social Personal account.
Minneapolis City Council Member - 12th Ward. Hyper-local chatterbox, Pro-labor, Fmr Policy Aide, First-generation Bengali-American.
Aisha Chughtai @aishaforward10.com renter, former union organizer, eldest daughter to a Muslim immigrant family • socialist • representing Ward 10 on the Minneapolis City Council • she/her
North Star Policy Action @northstarpolicy.org We're an independent research and communications institute that advances bold ideas that improve the lives of everyday Minnesotans.
Nate Pentz @natepentz.bsky.social Vegan realtor at @pentzhomes.bsky.social | soccer fan MN Aurora, MNUFC, Lynx, Timberwolves, ManCity | Aeropress Evangelist | he/him | North Minneapolis
FC St. Pauli EN @en.fcstpauli.com Official English account of FC St. Pauli 🏴☠️
MJ / Matt(sui) Sportz @mj-mattsui.bsky.social freelance 📝📷 Midway Monitor, TDIKMN pod, ⚽ Mpls City member board, broomball player, rugby fan --
non-sports @ mjmpls.bsky.social
MJ @mjmpls.bsky.social MN - Freelance Community & Sports Journalist, Bicycle Mechanic, Knife Sharpener/Consultant, Home Chef, Deep Diver on Various Subjects
Mark Privratsky @markprivratsky.bsky.social I bartend at Blackhart in St Paul, the world’s only Queer Soccer Bar
Bean farmer (hit me up if you wanna reserve some)
Sahan Journal @sahanjournal.bsky.social Sahan Journal is a nonprofit news organization dedicated to covering Minnesota immigrants & communities of color.
sahanjournal.com
taylr @taylordahlin.com local duckling with internet access
📍 minneapolis MN
Wedge LIVE!™ @wedge.live The Wedge's News Leader | Tips: newsroom@wedgelive.com | signal: wedgelive.33
Support hyperlocal news: patreon.com/wedgelive
Jason Chavez @jchavezmpls.bsky.social He/him. Southsider LGBTQ+ Latino 🏳️🌈. Minneapolis City Council Member for the 9th Ward. Chair of the Public Health, Safety & Equity Committee.
The Citizens @mplscitizenssg.bsky.social ISG of Mpls City Soccer Club and holder of MN Super Cup 🏆
🐦⬛📢🥁COYC!!!🥁📢🐦⬛
Also find us on IG - same name
Minnesota Frost @minnesotafrost.com Feel the freeze.
One of the @thepwhl.com inaugural six.
Back-to-back Walter Cup champions.
ren they/them 🏳️⚧️ @renzaro.com i make videos (@renzarofitzgerald) about how economic justice and mobility justice are the same winning issue.
journalist in training @usa.streetsblog.org
www.renzaro.com
Minneapolis City SC @mplscitysc.bsky.social The most popular club in the galaxy and/or our stadium.
We play in USL League Two. @MplsCitySC almost everywhere
#MplsCity
Bill Lindeke @blindeke.bsky.social Urban Geographer @ UMN. Cityscape columnist @ Minnpost. Skyway Don Quixote. Tread lightly on earth. he/him Author of "St. Paul: Urban Biography”
Open Library @openlibrary.org Open Library is a non-profit, open source catalog of every book published, run by the Internet Archive. We help patrons across the globe access millions of digital library books for free.
Rob Sand @robsandia.bsky.social Iowa State Auditor, father, bowhunter, former prosecutor, pizza auditor. Running to be Iowa's next Governor.
Public servant, not a politician.
Rutger Bregman @rutgerbregman.com Historian | Author of ‘Utopia for Realists’ (2014), ‘Humankind’ (2020) and ‘Moral Ambition’ (2025) | Co-founder of The School for Moral Ambition | moralambition.org | rutgerbregman.com
📖 substack.com/@rutgerbregman
📺 youtube.com/@rutger.bregman
Minnesota Aurora FC @mnaurorafc.bsky.social Minnesota's community-owned women's soccer team. 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, and 2026 Heartland Division Champions.
2025 Central Conference Champions.
bit.ly/m/mnaurorafc
Wes Burdine @wesburdine.bsky.social PhD in literature
Owner of Black Hart of St Paul
Cofounder Minnesota Aurora
St Pauli Peace Prize Award Winner
Black Hart of Saint Paul @blackhartstp.com World Famous(ish) queer soccer bar in, you guessed it, St Paul.
Minnesota United FC @mnufc.com official MLS team. unofficial Oasis fan page.
The Loony Bin @loonybinpodcast.bsky.social A podcast dedicated to expanding #MNUFC fandom, one newbie, or Loonlet, at a time.
Host: Dan Elias (@oyvey2you.bsky.social)
Agent of Chaos: Loonlet Matt Leaf (@mnloonlet.bsky.social)
Email us: theloonybinpod (at) gmail.com
#COYL
Andy Greder @andygreder.bsky.social Sportswriter at St. Paul Pioneer Press on #Gophers and #MNUFC beats
Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social NFL analyst at ESPN.
Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social Long Time Internet Guy
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov Fighting every day to deliver a city that working New Yorkers can actually afford. Mayor of New York City.
BetaNYC, a partner project of the Fund for the City of New York @beta.nyc We help New Yorkers access information & use technology. We want New York’s governments to work for the people, by the people, for the digital era. #civictech #opendata #pitech
beta.nyc/links
bbno$👶🚫💰 @bbnomula.bsky.social it’s baby no money +1 (808) 900-4493
Jeremy "Looking for Arrows" Zorek @jeremyzorek.bsky.social Fan of all things transit, Rutgers graduate, Hunter Master's of Urban Planning Student
they/he
alex davis @alexdavistransit.bsky.social Proudly car free in LA 🚌🌴
Bringing fare checks back to LA Metro
www.enforcethefares.org 🎫✅
My statements =/= my employer's
-Being wrong lets you learn.
-Being naive lets you try.
-Being cringe lets you change the world.
Jackson @64streetcar.bsky.social He/him/his. Infrastructure/transit/built environment/music/covered bridge/lighthouse/Brian Wilson enthusiast based in Philly!
Alliance of Civic Technologists @civictechallies.bsky.social A community dedicated to connecting and supporting all #volunteer #civictech efforts across the nation!
🌐 civictechnologists.org
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
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/
Dan Hon @danhon.com Hi, it's me, I'm the problem etc etc
me: https://about.danhon.com
i make: https://donotreply.cards
work: https://verylittlegravitas.com/
my hallway track: https://verylittlegravitas.com/hallwaytrack
DM or Signal danhon.1701
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
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.
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
Tiffani Ashley Bell @tiffaniashleybell.com Programmer. Transilient. An internet person at The Human Utility paying water bills & freeing people from debt. Nerded out at Howard, Harvard Kennedy School, YC, & Stanford GSB. F1 fan. Spoke at TED.
Black-Scholes-Merton FTW
In LAX or FAY 🏳️🌈
Dave Guarino @allafarce.bsky.social Software and complex (not complicated) systems. Pursuing the public good, sometimes with technology.
Gordon Ross 🇨🇦 @gordonr.ca VP & Partner, OXD: Vancouver-based digital services firm. I work with government to afford better citizen outcomes. 🇨🇦 Spem Successus Alit | success nourishes hope. 
mediajunkie @xianlandia.com likes making stuff with other people
can leap tall buildings, given a running start
crumlish.me
xoxo.zone/@xian
layersofmeta.com
he/they
Richard Pope @richardpope.org I wrote a book on public services:
https://londonpublishingpartnership.co.uk/books/platformland-an-anatomy-of-next-generation-public-services/
It’s time to share the benefits of digital with the public properly.
Kate Tarling @kateldn.bsky.social Supporting orgs to be more service-oriented through advisory, training and coaching. Author of The Service Organization book and running The Service Org Group. Also trail running. Sheffield.
Caroline Jarrett @cjforms.bsky.social Forms and survey specialist.
Always keen to try to answer your questions about making better forms (and if you must, maybe even those about surveys).
Effortmark.co.uk
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
Meredith Hitchcock @mhitchcock.bsky.social UX researcher. Passionate about trauma-informed design and research and tech for good. 
sasha @sashax.bsky.social Technologist. San Franciscan. Cyclist. Troublemaker. Not in that order.
Rebecca Piazza @rdpiazza.bsky.social Service delivery / Product / Public benefits / Civic tech. Strongly held opinions about DC statehood and Midwest casseroles.
Harlan Weber @whereshj.bsky.social Design, product, org building for the public interest. Director of Design, Nava PBC. Founder, Code for Boston. Former MA state gov @ MA Digital and MBTA. #twindad. Likes pushing boulders uphill.
Steve "Spike" Spiker @spikeone.bsky.social Chief Impact Officer w @First5Alameda, personal account.
Anti-racist, Christian, dad+husband.
By day, team building & #civictech
By night, #girldad, social justice and hip-hop.
Side hustle stealingbeautyphotography.com 
@shashashasha.bsky.social @shashashasha.bsky.social 
Ariel Kennan @arielmai.bsky.social Building the Digital Benefits Network at the Beeck Center at Georgetown University
Ask me about service design, public benefits, product, digital identity, Rules as Code, and civic tech / gov tech.
📍NYC, and often DC
Angelica Quicksey @angelquicksey.bsky.social 👾 Urban planner for the internet
⚡️ Managing Director @newpublic.org
🌲 Seattle is always home
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.
carlmalamud @yeswescan.org Practitioner of edicts of government at Public.Resource.Org. 
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!
Joshua Tauberer @joshdata.me Civic technologist and engineering manager. Founder @govtrack.us. More active at https://mastodon.joshdata.me/@josh.
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.
Fureigh @fureigh.bsky.social Punk guitarist and songwriter, civic technologist (formerly @18F, @codeforamerica & more).
Make stuff that makes a difference.
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
Matt Bernius @mattbernius.bsky.social Qualitative Researcher at Code for America, former Measures For Justice. Accidental union organizer, trauma responsive thinker, participatory action research facilitator, civic design/tech, martial arts (BJJ, FMA, CMA), and more.
He/they.
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
Alberto @albertico.bsky.social Civic technologist transforming US healthcare. Ruby enthusiast. Personal account.
Forest Gregg @bunkum.us bunkum.us
ontological expert
"using my custom formula, I would get a prediction"
Derek Eder @derekeder.com Civic tech builder in Chicago. Partner at DataMade, President Emeritus at Chi Hack Night & Oak Park Village Trustee. Entrepreneur, developer, civic technology leader, climate advocate and public servant. he/him
jodify @jodify.bsky.social 
Michelle Thong @michellethong.bsky.social Civic technologist, urbanist, feminist, cynical optimist. VP of Product at Nava. Canadian + Californian, living in New England. 
Whitney Q @whitneyq.bsky.social Center for Civic Design. A Web for Everyone. plain language. storytelling. democracy
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).
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.
Jorge Valens 🚀 @jorgevalens.com Government Geek 🤓 | Avid Indoorsman | Innovation & AI Manager, Miami-Dade County CITD 🌴☀️ | All about product management, policy development, and gov innovation. | Opinions = Mine (and can be discussed over brunch).
Jessi Murray @jessimurray.bsky.social I’m a Chief Product Officer in civic tech with a focus on equity and meeting people where they are. I have cute corgi and too many hobbies. Former progressive challenger. Personal account
MA > WA > MA again
mx cordelia yu @thebestsophist.bsky.social Design director @ Office of Regulatory & Oversight Systems / TTS.
Mike Sarasti @sarasti.bsky.social Musician / Technologist / Long history in local government.
Half of RAKER - @rakermusic.bsky.social
Carter Baxter @another.rodeo Endorsed for banter and dolphin facts. Has worn many hats, and was never told there would be so many rodeos. Don't blame my employer for the dumb things I say, and never assume anything I say here is correct.
Vyki Englert @vykster.bsky.social LA / 台北
Josh Gee @jgee.bsky.social You can save the world, but first, lunch! He/him. At Work for America getting the best people into State and Local Government. Former digital services at MTA, City of Boston. Politics before that. Mass Oyster Project. Write about food and tech.
Krista Canellakis @kristallakis.bsky.social Serving public servants. Currently at U.S. Digital Response. Former Deputy Secretary in CA Govt Operations Agency & City of SF Chief Innovation Officer. Firm believer the world would be better with more pink. 💗
Nikki Ramos @nkkrms.bsky.social civic design, fast cars, occasional quips. surviving out of spite?
prev: USDC, refugee asylum, transplant modernization. Views own
chizo nwagwu @cnwagwu.bsky.social public interest technologist. gardner in training. arts lover. dc based.
Rebecca Heywood @kdyz.bsky.social Digital transformation in government | #PublicSectorJobBoard | Promoting public service careers for technologists
Tyler Gindraux 🌻 @tylergindraux.bsky.social I'm a researcher and designer of public services. I live in Brooklyn, NY.
John Fitzgerald @johnfitzg.bsky.social digital evolution • charities • change • digital strategy • tech for good • fixing the plumbing • responsible AI • Scotland • feed may contain bikes and sailing
Brendan Babb @brendanbabb.bsky.social Chief Innovation Officer & i-team Director, Anchorage, Alaska | Math | DJing | Biomimicry | GenAI
Ryan @ryan-powers.bsky.social Climber. Trail Runner. Weekend side project enthusiast.
Views my own.
Ed Mullen @edmullen.bsky.social Designer and strategist mostly working in civic tech. Currently Nava PBC, previously 18F, HC.gov... 💙s = gratitude for your post, not agreement with topic. www.edmullen.com
Rachael Dietkus @rdietkus.bsky.social care for the public / lifelong advocate / designer / social worker / organizational ecologist / space nerd / tech ethicist / founder of www.socialworkerswho.design
Civic Tech Field Guide @civictechguide.bsky.social Your place to find and be found
https://civictech.guide/
Trilly C @trillyc.bsky.social Head of Product Management @nhsengland. Audiophile. Serial hobbyist.
Patrick Kigongo @kigongo.bsky.social A New Yorker in LA. Skateboarding. (Casual) football. Fitchecks. ex-18F. #CivicTech. This is a personal account. R/T’s ≠ endorsements
Ryan Melton: Fmr. Dem. for U.S. House, IA-04 @melton4iowa.bsky.social Democratic Party candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives in Iowa’s 4th CD in ‘22 and '24. Advocate, activist, and friend.
Joey Politano🏳️🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social Writing a data-driven newsletter about economics @ apricitas.io
Nuance? In this Economy
Full Employment Stan, Brazilian Coffee Tariff Victim |
ACLU of Iowa @acluofiowa.bsky.social Prizing liberties & maintaining rights since 1935 ✊
ACLU @aclu.org A nonprofit, nonpartisan, legal and advocacy 501(c)(4) organization. Visit our site for more about us and our affiliated organization, the ACLU Foundation.