Dawn McDougall is a civic tech and open data professional, emergent leader, and public speaker. She is(whose projects are entirely open-source and based on open-data). Dawn also works for an Open-SaaS software company, with their core platform operated as an open-source project.
As Executive Director of Code for Philly, Dawn scopes the vision of the group, manages its leadership team, and builds strategic partnerships.
Dawn is a civic hacker by way of her love of cities (particularly Philly) and fixation on how urban governance can be directly improved by civic participation. She also loves tasting new beers, exploring city neighborhoods, marathon reading, and other human adult life things.