Jennifer Hernandez is a 2022 Congressional Innovation Fellow who is serving with the newly created House Digital Service, where she is helping to create a data roadmap and proof of concept that enables data-driven decision-making for the House. Before joining TechCongress, Jen was the City of Miami’s first Senior Data Scientist. She enabled fact-based decision-making, applied machine learning models to improve government services, and prototyped data solutions that leverage cutting-edge technologies

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