Christian Perez is a 2022 Congressional Innovation Fellow who is serving with Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) and working on issues related to Medicaid data analysis, healthcare data privacy, and public health IT/surveillance modernization efforts. Christian utilizes artificial intelligence to research emerging environmental health issues at the Center of Research Excellence in Science and Technology at Florida International University, where he is a current Ph.D. Candidate in Public Health.

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