Aleena Khan

December 26, 2021

All, Commitment to DEI

Measuring Diversity: Our 2022 Recruitment Report

Aleena Khan

December 26, 2021

All, Commitment to DEI

Measuring Diversity: Our 2022 Recruitment Report

Our 2022 recruitment included the most diverse pool of applications in our history.

Aleena Khan

March 9, 2020

All, Commitment to DEI

Measuring Diversity: Our 2020 Recruitment Report

Aleena Khan

March 9, 2020

All, Commitment to DEI

Measuring Diversity: Our 2020 Recruitment Report

We’re committed to publishing our diversity metrics after each recruiting cycle.

Travis Moore

April 15, 2019

All, Commitment to DEI

Measuring Diversity: Our 2019 Recruitment Report

Travis Moore

April 15, 2019

All, Commitment to DEI

Measuring Diversity: Our 2019 Recruitment Report

We’re committed to publishing our diversity metrics after each recruiting cycle.

Bukky Adebayo

February 28, 2019

All, Meet the Fellows, In the News

2018 Fellow Reflections: Bukky Adebayo

Bukky Adebayo

February 28, 2019

All, Meet the Fellows, In the News

Through supporting Senator Tom Udall, my understanding of technology policy became more nuanced.

James Gimbi

February 21, 2019

All, Meet the Fellows, In the News

2018 Fellow Reflections: James Gimbi

James Gimbi

February 21, 2019

All, Meet the Fellows, In the News

Serving the First Branch has been the highlight of my career.

Brooke Hunter

December 7, 2018

All, About TC, Commitment to DEI

Battling the Structural Barriers to working in Congress

Brooke Hunter

December 7, 2018

All, About TC, Commitment to DEI

Battling the Structural Barriers to working in Congress

As the contemporary workplace changes to accommodate the needs of employees by embracing remote work and flexible schedules, Congress remains stuck in the same traditions as always.

Travis Moore

August 1, 2018

All, About TC, Fellowship Recruitment and Selections

Our first three years: an independent evaluation of TechCongress

Travis Moore

August 1, 2018

All, About TC, Fellowship Recruitment and Selections

Our first three years: an independent evaluation of TechCongress

Early this year we commissioned an independent evaluation of our work in order to take stock of our first three years and our first three classes of fellows. These are some of the findings.

Andres Bascumbe

June 12, 2018

All, Fellowship Recruitment and Selections

What We Learned: Fellowship Orientation 2018

Andres Bascumbe

June 12, 2018

All, Fellowship Recruitment and Selections

What We Learned: Fellowship Orientation 2018

We think it’s important to equip our fellows with the information and expertise necessary to thrive as a congressional staffer. We invest in each of our fellows to give them the skills that the average staffer compiles over time.

Andres Bascumbe

April 20, 2018

All, Meet the Fellows, In the News

2017 Fellow Reflections: Maurice Turner

Andres Bascumbe

April 20, 2018

All, Meet the Fellows, In the News

I expected to leverage my local government and technology experiences, and learn a great deal about the challenges of considering opposing viewpoints while building coalitions to pass legislation. I had no idea just how much I would learn during this non-traditional start to the 115th Congress.

Andres Bascumbe

April 10, 2018

All, Meet the Fellows, In the News

2017 Fellow Reflections: Sunmin Kim

Andres Bascumbe

April 10, 2018

All, Meet the Fellows, In the News

As a TechCongress fellow, I had a valuable opportunity to learn how Congress deals with tech from the inside including some questions to ask when beginning to look into a bill or policy proposal.

Andres Bascumbe

March 5, 2018

All, Fellowship Recruitment and Selections, Commitment to DEI

Measuring Diversity: A look at how we're doing

Andres Bascumbe

March 5, 2018

All, Fellowship Recruitment and Selections, Commitment to DEI

Measuring Diversity: A look at how we're doing

At the end of each recruitment cycle, we’re committed to publishing our diversity metrics. It’s important that we be transparent about where we’re succeeding and where we’re falling short. Here is that information.

Travis Moore

February 27, 2018

All, About TC

What We Learned: Tech Tools for Startups

Travis Moore

February 27, 2018

All, About TC

What We Learned: Tech Tools for Startups

We’ve leveraged tech tools to save huge amounts of time and money. In the three years of TechCongress, here is what’s worked for us, and what we’ve learned.

Travis Moore

June 11, 2017

All, About TC, Fellowship Recruitment and Selections

What We Learned: The 2016 Fellowship

Travis Moore

June 11, 2017

All, About TC, Fellowship Recruitment and Selections

Our program hypothesis was that Congress was hungry for technical expertise. Within a few days of our first cohort of fellows landing in Congress in 2016, we knew we'd proven our hypothesis correct.

JC Cannon

January 25, 2017

All, Meet the Fellows, In the News

What I Learned: My Year as a Congressional Innovation Fellow

JC Cannon

January 25, 2017

All, Meet the Fellows, In the News

What I Learned: My Year as a Congressional Innovation Fellow

After spending more than 30 years in the technology industry, I decided to leave it behind and join the policy world.

Travis Moore

August 15, 2016

All, About TC, Insights

Congressional staff should be as diverse as the U.S. Here’s why they're not (and how we’re trying to build a program that is).

Travis Moore

August 15, 2016

All, About TC, Insights

Congressional staff should be as diverse as the U.S. Here’s why they're not (and how we’re trying to build a program that is).

Congress and tech don’t have a whole lot in common, but they do share the unfortunate truth that neither looks like or represents the diversity of the United States.

Travis Moore

July 12, 2016

All, About TC

Lessons from the CivicX Accelerator

Travis Moore

July 12, 2016

All, About TC

Storytelling, better KPIs and value proposition design: these are some of the things I learned from the startups in the CivicX accelerator program.

Travis Moore

May 31, 2016

All, About TC

Orientation: What We Learned

Travis Moore

May 31, 2016

All, About TC

Congress is a unique place. Our challenge was to build an orientation program that could convey the basics about Congress in a short time—its procedure, its politics and its people, and adding some basics about current tech policy issues. This is What We Learned.

Travis Moore

April 5, 2016

All, Fellowship Recruitment and Selections, About TC

Selections: What We Learned

Travis Moore

April 5, 2016

All, Fellowship Recruitment and Selections, About TC

Between November 1 and November 20, we conducted three rounds of selections, including one round of interviews with finalists and a series of reference checks. Here’s What We Learned about selecting tech talent for Congress in that very busy 19 days.

Travis Moore

March 31, 2016

All, About TC

Joining the CivicX Accelerator

Travis Moore

March 31, 2016

All, About TC

I couldn’t be more excited: we've been selected for the Points of Light Civic Accelerator! The program (CivicX for short) is unique because it’s focused on helping organizations like TechCongress that are tackling public-interest problems.

Travis Moore

March 10, 2016

All, About TC, Commitment to DEI

Recruitment: What We Learned

Travis Moore

March 10, 2016

All, About TC, Commitment to DEI

TechCongress is starting a series of posts describing What We Learned from our first year of the organization and the Congressional Innovation Fellowship. Here's What We Learned about recruitment.