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“Any Tuesday night in the City of San Jose, you can see government at work that has almost immediate impact” -Kelli Parmley

In this episode, we feature the voices of the cofounder of CivicMakers Judi Brown, Assistant Director of Human Resources at the City of San Jose Kelli Parmley, and former Director of Digital Services and Open Government for the City of San Rafael, Rebecca Woodbury

In today’s show, we wanted to focus on the impact that the COVID-19 pandemic and economic meltdown have and are continuing to have on our local governments. We asked our friend of the show Judi Brown and her team at CivicMakers to help us put together and co-host a panel discussion with local government thought leaders to share with us how they are responding to the economic and health crisis along with their experience’s insights and recommendations.

Judi Brown

Judi Brown is a creative systems thinker and human-centered design practitioner with a penchant for civic technology and radically inclusive, participatory governance structures. As Chief Impact Officer of CivicMakers, Judi brings over 12 years of experience in applied innovation methodologies with social enterprises, nonprofits, and government agencies to the practice. Her work is grounded in multi-disciplinary, multi-sectoral approaches with a lens toward equity and inclusion. Prior to CivicMakers, Judi worked as a Design Strategist with Collective Invention, a social innovation firm working primarily in education and community development. She honed her applied design thinking and public involvement skills while working in Kenya on survey development and evaluation services for Zawadisha, a micro-lending fund benefitting women entrepreneurs. She has also worked in the fields of nonprofit management and corporate philanthropy before co-founding CivicMakers in late 2015. A lifelong learner, Judi thrives in co-creating learning experiences. At CivicMakers, she has led the development of trainings that apply human-centered design to community engagement, strategic planning, and change management. She taught an MPA Capstone class at Presidio Graduate School in San Francisco where she earned a Master’s degree in Sustainable Public Administration and Policy.

Rebecca Woodbury

Rebecca Woodbury has worked in local government for over a decade and was the City of San Rafael’s first director of Digital Service & Open Government. She also served as the City's public information officer. Rebecca developed the City’s digital strategic framework and led an organization-wide human-centered design training program. In 2017, Government Technology named her one of the Top 25 Doers, Dreamers, and Drivers and in 2014 she received the Rising Star award at the Municipal Management Association of Northern California’s Women’s Leadership Summit. She has a BA in Public Policy and an MPP, both from Mills College in Oakland, California. Find out more about about Rebecca’s new consultancy business the Department of Civic Things. You can find out more about programs Rebecca helped create to support the City of San Rafael community Go Digital Marin and the Canal-Wifi as well as donate to Canal Alliance

Kelli Parmley

How does a first-generation college-goer, the child of farmers from Upstate New York (that landmass north of New York City) and fast-talking east coaster land in local government in San Jose? Kelli Parmley has had an interesting journey to her “home” in local government with the City of San Jose. She has more than 25 years of experience in the public sector, public higher education, not-for-profits, and now local government. She joined the City of San Jose in the City Manager’s Office in 2017 and is currently the Assistant Director for Human Resources, spending the last year in various assignments with the City’s Emergency Operations Center. She came to California in 2015 to join the Carnegie Foundation as their Vice President for Administration and Secretary to the Board and prior to coming to California she led an eight-district cross-sector community partnership (collective impact initiative) in Richmond, VA to reduce disparities in educational outcomes cradle-to-career. Kelli has fallen in love with the diversity, opportunity, and challenge of an urban community like San Jose. She is an enthusiastic advocate for public service and is a champion for local government with anyone who will listen. She received her undergraduate degree in Industrial and Labor relations from Cornell University, an MPA from the Maxwell School at Syracuse, and did doctoral work at the University at Albany

CivicMakers

CivicMakers is an innovation and engagement firm headquartered in San Francisco, California. We love listening, solving problems, and building relationships that improve our communities and institutions. Our service design, community engagement, and digital expertise brings the human side of technology to public agencies, social enterprises, and nonprofits. Please check out our Year in Review of both our programs and services. Here is more information on our Learning Labs with the City of San Jose and the City of San Rafael

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To find out more about the City of San Rafael’s Canal WiFi Project Rebecca mentioned please check out this video:

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“I think there are also these relationships, these collaborations, what they really show is that government can’t do these things alone. It’s really a cross-sector approach that I think is coming out of this, that in order to solve these really big problems, we need businesses, government non-profits philanthropy education, and healthcare. We need all the sectors coming together and collaborating on this. ”

— Rebecca Woodbury,Former Director Digital Services,Open Government,City of San Rafael

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