Katherine Townsend
Founder And Principal at Open Data Collaboratives
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolKatherine Townsend is a founder and public-sector operations leader with 12 years of experience building civic tech programs, open-data ecosystems, and public-private partnerships that drive more equitable, transparent governance. She has led large, multidisciplinary teams and multimillion-dollar initiatives—from designing continent-wide conferences and national data portals to winning Gates Foundation funding and delivering strategy briefings to Sir Tim Berners-Lee. At Open Data Collaboratives she scaled national and regional programs (including a UAE hack series with 12,000 participants and opening 6,000 datasets) and led a $10M+ global Internet measurement effort producing the world’s largest public dataset. Comfortable at the intersection of policy, product, and community, she repeatedly turns messy government data and stakeholder complexity into usable platforms and partnerships. Trained at Harvard Kennedy School and Georgetown, she blends operational rigor with a restless curiosity for participatory design and safety-by-design civic technologies.
12 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Public Administration - MPA, Political Science and Government, Master of Public Administration - MPA, Political Science and Government at Harvard Kennedy SchoolBachelor of Arts (B.A.), American History (United States) & African History, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), American History (United States) & African History at Georgetown UniversityBrown University
Github Skills (6)
measurement8
jekyll6
open-data1
data-gov1
policies1
ads1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
cmurphyUSAID/implementation-guide
Oct 2014 - Oct 2014
Contributions:15 commits in 1 day
policyadsguidanceopen-datafederal
leahbannon/PublicDocs
Apr 2014 - Apr 2014
Contributions:2 commits in 1 day
govdata-govguidanceopen-govpolicies
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