ep50 - Amanda Renteria - 2021 Code for America Summit

Stories from the Open Gov

Amanda Renteria is the Chief Executive Officer at Code for America, which is a network of people making government work for the people, by the people, in the digital age. She is also the former Chief of Operations at the California Department of Justice, former Chief of Staff in the United States Senate. And a National Political Director for a large U.S. presidential campaign. But, perhaps most importantly, it is Amanda’s second time on Stories from the Open Gov, which I suppose makes her an official friend of the podcast! And today, we talk a little about the effect of COVID19 on civic tech and the upcoming Code For America Summit taking place on May 12-13 https://summit.codeforamerica.org/ Time stamps: 1:29 - Asking how Amanda's new role as CfA CEO is coming. 5:01 - How was it organizing the first virtual CfA Summit? 12:34 - How did the CfA team choose which proposals for breakout sessions made it to the final program? 16:37 - Amanda talks about using Hopin as their virtual platform for the summit. 20:57 - What are some sessions at the CfA Summit Amanda is most excited about? 22:30 - What's next for the CfA after the Summit? Amanda Renteria Twitter account twitter.com/AmandaRenteria Code for America twitter.com/CodeforAmerica Richard Pietro Twitter account twitter.com/richardpietro Re: Open Gov Twitter account twitter.com/re_open_gov ABOUT Stories from the Open Gov is a podcast published by www.reopengov.org and is dedicated to telling the stories about what Open Government & Open Data look like. Your host is Richard Pietro, an Open Government & Open Data practitioner for the past 10 years. Listen and learn how Open Government & Open Data are becoming a reality! MUSIC ATTRIBUTION - Introduction & conclusion Singing Sadie - I Can't Dance freemusicarchive.org/music/Singing_…3_I_Cant_Dance Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 US) creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/