It’s not every day you meet someone who gets ultra excited by the legislative process, but Yemi Adewunmi finds it inspiring: “Why be an innovator if you're not going to be optimistic?”. And that’s one of the reasons she founded Civic Eagle, a startup that helps policy professionals and lobbyists track and collaborate on bills as they wind through Congress or state legislatures on their way to becoming laws…or dying in committee. Either way, Civic Eagle wants to make that journey more transparent, make it easier for advocates to collaborate, and improve democracy in the process.

On this episode of Crafted: Civic Eagle’s founder and Chief Operating Officer, Yemi Adewunmi tells us how her former career as a policy analyst at the New York state legislature set her on a winding path toward establishing Civic Eagle. And hear how a failed app, and a lot of UX learning helped Yemi and her team arrive at Civic Eagle, and a huge vision for growth.

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