Emilie Reiser
Brazil Programs Lead at Digital Democracy
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEmilie Reiser is a Brazil Programs Lead and full-stack developer with 12 years of experience applying technology to civic engagement, gender-based violence response, and community resilience. She has led technical programs at Digital Democracy and the MIT Media Lab, building platforms like Promise Tracker and facilitating participatory design with civil society partners in Brazil and Haiti. Emilie combines hands-on development with program leadership—running trainings, hackathons, and capacity building to ensure tools are locally owned and sustainable. Her background in Latin American studies, Creole-English interpretation work, and on-the-ground program delivery gives her a rare mix of cultural fluency and technical expertise. Based in Cambridge, MA, she focuses on pragmatic, human-centered technology strategies that prioritize justice and service access. Notably, she has repeatedly translated grassroots needs into open-source, data-driven tools that improve accountability and support frontline organizations.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Latin American Studies; Politics, Spanish, Bachelor's degree, Latin American Studies; Politics, Spanish at New York UniversityHuman Rights & Media Program | Rio de Janeiro, BrazilCuban politics, history & literature, Cuban politics, history & literature at University of Havana
Spanish, Haitian Creole, Portuguese, French
Github Skills (51)
web-application10
bug-tracker10
corona10
agile10
monitoring9
community-management9
web-development9
angular8
react8
rails-app8
vue8
javascript8
rescue8
ios7
ionic7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
mitmedialab/promise-tracker-aggregator
Sep 2014 - Mar 2021
Datastore and API for civic monitoring surveys and responses
Contributions:54 commits, 39 pushes, 7 branches in 6 years 6 months
apidatastorecivicsurveysmonitoring
mitmedialab/promise-tracker-builder
Jun 2014 - Dec 2021
Web app for developing and tracking civic monitoring campaigns
Contributions:618 commits, 397 pushes, 7 branches in 7 years 6 months
developingweb-appagileweb-applicationtracking
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