building software to support more resilient elections @USDResponse. tweets cover spectrum of serious thoughts and dumb jokes. she/her. likes ≠ endorsements.

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Priya Garg retweeted
20 Sep 2022
In honor of #NationalVoterRegistrationDay, Melissa House, Elections Partner Engineer at @USDResponse, talks about some of the numerous projects she works on, including one that helps counties manage their poll workers for #elections. 🇺🇸
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Priya Garg retweeted
mayor Michelle Wu @MayorWu is announcing a new forestry team as part of the Parks dept, focusing in upcoming weeks on neighborhoods with limited tree cover, including Chinatown, East Boston, Roxbury, Allston/Brighton
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Priya Garg retweeted
23 Aug 2022
Greetings from @ElectionCenter2 earthlings. Very proud to be a conference New Bee 🐝 😂 I’ll be speaking with @priyaisms, @mkinthehouse and @LynnConstabile about low-code and using technology to save time running elections at 9:30am and 3:30pm. Come heckle us!
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10 Aug 2022
Cambridge’s version of keeping up the the joneses is getting one of these
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28 Jul 2022
Really great profile out of our very own @USDResponse volunteer Mike Foreman, a seasoned tech executive and entrepreneur medium.com/u-s-digital-respo…
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28 Jul 2022
One of my favorite parts of my job is getting to work with the caliber of people at USDR - a bunch of smart, dedicated, kind, fun people. Reach out if you're interested in joining the team!
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19 Jul 2022
THIS 👇
15 Jul 2022
"So many broken systems, but this one has a fix" (@TheHillOpinion) trib.al/xTFPf1j
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14 Jul 2022
This reminded me why I love my job!
14 Jul 2022
For those of you who aren’t up to date with my life, I’ve been working @USDResponse on free, open-source and low-code tools to support local election administration for the past two years. Yesterday, something happened that blew my mind 1/
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Priya Garg retweeted
15 Jun 2022
📅 Very excited for this session on June 22nd where @alexallain and panelists @mkinthehouse more explore the engineering work behind how a collab w/ local election officials built our scalable Poll Worker Management tool.
Communities across the country need tech expertise to help them respond at the speed of need Wondering how you as a technologist can support public servants? Check out Scaling Civic Technology: A Series on the Engineering of Public Service eventbrite.com/e/scaling-civ…
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11 May 2022
You know you're a nerd when it blows your mind to discover that Canadian governments can seamlessly send notifications to their citizens, for free: notification.canada.ca/ Saves 💰, better user experience...win-win. When are we getting this in the US? @aaronsnow 🙂

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21 Apr 2022
The news is out! I'm so excited to be jumping onboard @USDResponse team full-time to co-lead this program.
🗳️ We're thrilled to announce the establishment of our Elections Program! Our team is helping assist election officials through simple digital tools that will remove administrative burden and allow them to focus more on the needs of voters. usdigitalresponse.org/press-…
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19 Apr 2022
Cool list 👇 1 on canva, airtable, loom, zapier. We use these and more to build low-code applications for governments @USDResponse!
I’ve done $2M in income in 2.5 years as a solopreneur. And I didn't write a single line of code. My 14 "must use" no-code tools: [🧵 thread]
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Priya Garg retweeted
23 Mar 2022
A tragedy of many modern product teams is that they have been conditioned to feel smartest when debating metrics, reviewing charts, discussing complex analyses, and not feel smart or safe when broaching the topic of customer psychology, creative solutions, and cognitive biases.
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20 Feb 2022
it’s not a you problem, it’s a ux problem
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Priya Garg retweeted
11 Feb 2022
🎶 You may say I'm a dreamer But I'm not the only one🎶 🚇
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21 Dec 2021
google maps, generally: no matter what you do or wherever you go, I got you. you can always trust me google maps in boston massachusetts:

ALT ILied Liz Lemon GIF

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20 Dec 2021
Web3: We are a progressive movement to counterbalance capitalism and the concentration of power/wealth Also Web3: In the future we will monetize literally everything and a person’s value will be determined by their market cap Choose a lane bro
In the future, instead of measuring a creator's clout based on her Instagram following, we'll point to her market cap. Tokens allow us to measure both breadth *and* depth of a creator's community. Examples 👇
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20 Dec 2021
Also on this theme
Decentralized currency, baby! wsj.com/amp/articles/bitcoin…
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