Allen Clark
Co Founder at Citizen Labs
Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAllen Clark is a communications and civic-technology leader with 10+ years of experience building cross-sector campaigns that connect government, industry, and communities. As Co‑Founder of Citizen Labs/Friendly Code in Grand Rapids and former Head of Corporate Communications & Government Relations for Mahindra GenZe, he blends public affairs, event strategy and open-data advocacy to launch initiatives that attract national media and secure public-private partnerships. His background includes press roles at NASA and the White House, where he helped build NASA’s first agency-wide website and managed international press for presidential events—skills that inform his strength in translating technical projects into compelling public narratives. Comfortable in both startup and large-corporate settings, he combines hands-on program building (from civic tech brigades to site-selection negotiations) with grassroots volunteer mobilization and employee engagement work. Notably, he has repeatedly turned technical or policy complexity into high-visibility wins—generating over 135 million impressions for a single brand launch—while fostering sustainable local civic tech ecosystems.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BGS, BGS at University of Michigan
Github Skills (30)
hugo9
hugo-theme9
tachyons9
visualizations9
csv9
data-visualization9
documentation8
markdown7
css7
react7
html7
watershed6
jekyll6
internet6
gis6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
citizenlabsgr/community
Aug 2016 - Dec 2019
Information and resources for members of Citizen Labs.
Contributions:77 commits, 22 PRs, 134 pushes in 3 years 4 months
memberscitizen-labsparticipants
citizenlabsgr/homepage
Feb 2018 - Apr 2020
Contributions:140 commits, 11 PRs, 43 pushes in 2 years 2 months
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