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July 24, 2024
All, Fellowship Recruitment and Selections
Aleena Khan
Info Calls about the January 2025 Fellowship ...

Learn more about our January 2025 Congressional Fellowships by listening to a recording of one of our info sessions.

Info Calls about the January 2025 Fellowship (recordings available here)
July 9, 2024
All, Fellowship Recruitment and Selections
Mary Overton
Applications are open for our January 2025 ...

We’re looking for up to 16 engineers, computer scientists, and other technologists to join us as fellows in January 2025.

Applications are open for our January 2025 Fellowships!
April 11, 2024
All, Commitment to DEI
Mary Overton
Our 2024 Diversity Referral Awardees

We award $500 to someone who refers a veteran or transitioning service member, underrepresented person of color, woman, or nonbinary individual to the fellowship.

Our 2024 Diversity Referral Awardees
November 7, 2023
All, Meet the Fellows
Aleena Khan
Announcing our June 2023 Fellows' Placements

We are excited to highlight our June 2023 Fellows and their placements in Congress!

Announcing our June 2023 Fellows' Placements
August 4, 2023
All, Fellowship Recruitment and Selections
Aleena Khan
Info Calls about the January 2024 Fellowship ...

Learn more about our January 2024 Congressional Innovation Fellowship by listening to a recording of one of our info sessions.

Info Calls about the January 2024 Fellowship (recordings available here)
Joel Usher
March 7, 2017
All, Meet the Fellows

Meet the Fellows: Joel Usher

Joel Usher
March 7, 2017
All, Meet the Fellows
Meet the Fellows: Joel Usher

As a business founder, I had to work within the boundaries of state and federal regulation, and understand the need to provide space for innovation while enshrining public safety and consumer rights.

Tagged: the fellowship, Fellows

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Travis Moore
February 28, 2017
All, Meet the Fellows

Three in the Senate, one in the House. Here's where our 2017 fellows are now serving in Congress

Travis Moore
February 28, 2017
All, Meet the Fellows
Three in the Senate, one in the House.  Here's where our 2017 fellows are now serving in Congress

The 2017 Congressional Innovation Fellows have found their homes in Congress. 

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Andres Bascumbe
February 28, 2017
All, Insights

The Intercept: Congress May Lack Technical Expertise To Properly Investigate Russian Hacking

Andres Bascumbe
February 28, 2017
All, Insights
The Intercept: Congress May Lack Technical Expertise To Properly Investigate Russian Hacking

The Intercept writes about the congressional capacity to investigate Russia's involvement in the 2016 election.

Tagged: In the News

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Maurice Turner
February 15, 2017
All, Meet the Fellows

Meet the Fellows: Maurice Turner

Maurice Turner
February 15, 2017
All, Meet the Fellows
Meet the Fellows: Maurice Turner

There could not be a more exciting time to be a conservative coming into Congress: Republicans hold the majority in the House and Senate for the first time in over a decade.

Tagged: Fellows, the fellowship

2 Comments
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.

Tagged: What We Learned, the fellowship

1 Comment
Andres Bascumbe
December 29, 2016
All, Insights

WTOP: New company aims to help vets shift skills to civilian careers

Andres Bascumbe
December 29, 2016
All, Insights
WTOP: New company aims to help vets shift skills to civilian careers

WTOP reports on the difficulties finding job opportunities after serving in the military.

Tagged: In the News

1 Comment
Travis Moore
December 8, 2016
All, Meet the Fellows

Announcing our 2017 Congressional Innovation Fellows!

Travis Moore
December 8, 2016
All, Meet the Fellows
Announcing our 2017 Congressional Innovation Fellows!

Nearly 200 individuals, from from academia, civil society, government and big and small tech companies applied to join the program. 

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Travis Moore
September 27, 2016
All, Fellowship Recruitment and Selections

Application Deadline Extended to Sunday, October 2, 2016

Travis Moore
September 27, 2016
All, Fellowship Recruitment and Selections
Application Deadline Extended to Sunday, October 2, 2016

We've extended the deadline for applications for the 2017 Congressional Innovation Fellowship by 48 hours!  Applications now close Sunday, October 2, 2016.   Get yours in by 11:59pm Eastern Standard Time on 10/2 to be considered for our next class of fellows. 

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Travis Moore
August 23, 2016
All, Fellowship Recruitment and Selections

Recruiting Events throughout September

Travis Moore
August 23, 2016
All, Fellowship Recruitment and Selections
Recruiting Events throughout September

Join TechCongress in San Francisco, Washington D.C. and online throughout September to learn about the 2017 Congressional Innovation Fellowship. 

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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.

Tagged: What We Learned, Inclusion, recruitment, Selections, inclusion, diversity

2 Comments
Travis Moore
July 12, 2016
All, About TC

Lessons from the CivicX Accelerator

Travis Moore
July 12, 2016
All, About TC
Lessons from the CivicX Accelerator

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

Tagged: What We Learned, CivicX

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Travis Moore
July 12, 2016
All, Insights

Permanent Innovation Fellows (part II)

Travis Moore
July 12, 2016
All, Insights
Permanent Innovation Fellows (part II)

Kudos to Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy and House Republicans for taking a big step towards codifying the PIF program.  It's another sign that digital government can rise above the fray and partisan politics, regardless of who's in the White House.   

Tagged: Digital Government, White House

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Andres Bascumbe
June 16, 2016
All, Insights

Roll Call: Staffer Raise Might Pay for Daily Coffee

Andres Bascumbe
June 16, 2016
All, Insights
Roll Call: Staffer Raise Might Pay for Daily Coffee

Roll Call writes about the stagnant rise in congressional staff salaries.  

Tagged: In the News

1 Comment
Travis Moore
May 31, 2016
All, About TC

Orientation: What We Learned

Travis Moore
May 31, 2016
All, About TC
Orientation:  What We Learned

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.  

Tagged: What We Learned

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Andres Bascumbe
April 26, 2016
Insights

Recode: A Silicon Valley-led third party is not going to restore faith in government

Andres Bascumbe
April 26, 2016
Insights
Recode: A Silicon Valley-led third party is not going to restore faith in government

Recode writes about Silicon Valley's potential to work with the U.S. Government by presenting a third-party alternative in the 2016 Presidential election.  

Tagged: In the News

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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
Selections:  What We Learned

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.

Tagged: What We Learned, Selections, Inclusion

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Travis Moore
March 31, 2016
All, About TC

Joining the CivicX Accelerator

Travis Moore
March 31, 2016
All, About TC
Joining the CivicX Accelerator

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.

Tagged: CivicX, What We Learned

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Travis Moore
March 21, 2016
All, About TC

SXSW, and Working Within Institutions

Travis Moore
March 21, 2016
All, About TC

Last week I attended South By Southwest Interactive to sit on a panel about millenial engagment in tech policy.  Here’s what I think was interesting about the panel:  each of us talked about how we work within existing institutions to influence, improve, or modernize. 

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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
Recruitment: What We Learned

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. 

Tagged: What We Learned, recruitment, Inclusion

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Travis Moore
March 3, 2016
All, Fellowship Recruitment and Selections

Convening Technologists

Travis Moore
March 3, 2016
All, Fellowship Recruitment and Selections
Convening Technologists

The content of the fellowship doesn’t end once fellows find their placement.  A key goal of the program is for fellows to learn about Congress and become better acquainted with the policymaking universe. 

Tagged: fellowship programming

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