Lester Bird
Senior Manager at The Pew Charitable Trusts
Washington DC-Baltimore Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLester Bird is a Senior Manager with nine years of experience leading research, policy, and technology efforts to make courts and civil legal systems more accessible and equitable. Based in the Washington DC–Baltimore area, he directs teams at The Pew Charitable Trusts that produce novel empirical research—such as groundbreaking studies on debt collection lawsuits—that have driven state legislative and court rule changes. He combines civic-technology fluency (including managing legal navigator portal partnerships and election-data projects) with hands-on program delivery, stakeholder lobbying, and cross-sector collaboration. Known for translating technical tools and data into practical policy reforms, he routinely partners with tech firms, legal aid groups, and state courts to help people navigate legal systems without lawyers. An unexpected throughline in his career is that his background in history and early election-technology projects informs a pragmatic, people-centered approach to improving government systems.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, HISTORY, Bachelor's degree, HISTORY at University of Florida
Github Skills (16)
vote10
voting9
xml8
specification8
ids6
verifiable-credentials5
polling5
decentralized-identifiers5
embedded3
fundamentals3
web-developer2
kotlin1
csv1
ios1
vip1
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
lbirdpew/vip-specification
Jun 2017 - Jun 2017
Contributions:1 PR, 1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
xmlspecificationxml-projectvoting
votinginfoproject/vip-specification
Jun 2017 - Feb 2018
The Voting Information Project XML specification.
Contributions:4 commits, 4 PRs, 2 pushes in 8 months
xml-projectxmlspecificationspecificationsvoting
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