Code for America

Preview: Hacking the Hackathon for the Social & Civic Good

Claire Dunn is a digital producer at Spredfast, helping organizations build meaningful relationships with their audiences through social media engagement. She helped conceptualize and develop the first ATX Hack for Change event and then served as lead organizer in the hackathon’s second year. Dunn has spent more than seven years in the tech and higher education industries […]

What would inspire bright, creative, entrepreneurial developers and designers volunteer a year of their time to help American cities solve problems they otherwise couldn’t with the massive funding crisis faced by the majority of cities? That question led Jennifer Pahlka to found Code for America.

Code for America founder Jen Pahlka

Keynote addresses are always special, but organizers of the final keynote of SXSW Interactive must have saved the best for last. Jennifer (Jen) Pahlka, founder of Code for America, a new and unusual non-profit, will give that address. Pahlka, who spent some of her childhood years in Austin, started out in the gaming media industry. Among […]