Ben Swartz is a 2022 Congressional Innovation Fellow who is serving with Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA) and working on issues related to digital platforms, data privacy, and intellectual property. Before joining TechCongress, Ben worked at the non-profit Empower, building relational organizing software for Democratic groups in the 2020 election. Prior to that, Ben was an early engineer at Twitch, where he led teams to build products used by over a hundred million users.

In this episode, we sit down with Ben to talk about his journey to TechCongress and what being a civic technologist means to him.