Kristen Honey
Chief Data Officer
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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Top SchoolKristen Honey is a senior technology and data executive who has spent the past decade turning complex public-health and environmental data into actionable policy and products within HHS and the White House. She built and led enterprise open-data programs that grew federal practitioner communities from 1,000 to over 2.1 million, helped implement the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act, and stood up HHS’s Office of the Chief Data Officer and InnovationX accelerator. Her work spans crisis response (COVID-19 diagnostics platforms and HHS Protect), biomedical innovation (LymeX, KidneyX, Long COVID accelerators), and human-centered design sprints that move lab discoveries toward market-ready solutions. A prolific author and speaker with more than 80 publications and 135+ presentations worldwide, she combines interdisciplinary scientific training (PhD from Stanford) with senior federal policy experience across OSTP, OMB, and HHS. Notably, she cofounded multi-million-dollar public–private partnerships and led DARPA-collaborative projects linking epigenetics and diagnostics, reflecting a rare blend of science, policy, and program execution. Based in Washington, DC, she is recognized repeatedly for data leadership and innovation across federal and industry fora.
9 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma High School, Diploma High School at Portland High SchoolUniversity of California Santa CruzPhD EIPER - Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment & Resources, PhD EIPER - Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment & Resources at Stanford University
Spanish, Indonesian
Github Skills (4)
portal9
open-data8
data-management7
open-government2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
project-open-data/project-open-data.github.io
Feb 2017 - Feb 2017
Open Data Policy — Managing Information as an Asset
Contributions:3 commits, 2 PRs, 1 push in 9 days
policydata-managementportalopen-dataasset
GSA/participate-nap4
Sep 2017 - Sep 2017
Participate in the 4th U.S. National Action Plan for Open Government
Contributions:6 comments, 5 issues in 6 days
national4thplangovernmentopen-government
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