Victoria Houed is a 2020 Congressional Innovation Fellow who served with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and supported work on broadband adoption and policy, consumer online privacy, and autonomous vehicles. Before joining TechCongress, Victoria worked as a Software Engineer and Product Manager at Cards Against Humanity and founded a non-profit for Black Women in Technology called BlackByte. 

In this episode, we chat with Victoria about what drew her into politics and policymaking, why she created BlackByte, and how her experience as a technologist will inform her work on tech policy.