By Adam Mazmanian
Apr 06, 2021
Robin Carnahan, formerly Missouri s secretary of state and the lead of state and local government practice at 18F, is the administration s pick to lead the General Services Administration.
Carnahan founded GSA s state and local practice in 2016 and led the effort through 2020. The state and local practice grew out of a pilot project in California to rebuild the state s legacy Child Welfare System using human-centered design and agile acquisition and development practices.
She has led government partnerships at U.S. Digital Response, which aimed to connect pro bono tech experts to public servants responding to the COVID-19 crisis in an effort to help states manage and account for how they spend coronavirus stimulus grants.
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Today, President Joe Biden announced his intent to nominate Robin Carnahan as Administrator of the General Services Administration (GSA).
Robin Carnahan, Nominee
as Administrator of the General Services Administration (GSA)
Robin Carnahan is the former Secretary of State of Missouri and from 2016-20 founded and led the State and Local Government Practice at 18F, a tech consultancy inside the US government General Services Administration. She is a nationally recognized government technology leader and in 2017 was named one of the federal government’s “Top Women in Tech.” Carnahan is currently a Fellow at Georgetown University’s Beeck Center where she co-founded the State Software Collaborative.
By Adam Mazmanian
Robin Carnahan, formerly Missouri s secretary of state and the lead of state and local government practice at 18F, is the administration s pick to lead the General Services Administration.
Carnahan founded GSA s state and local practice in 2016 and led the effort through 2020. The state and local practice grew out of a pilot project in California to rebuild the state s legacy Child Welfare System using human-centered design and agile acquisition and development practices.
More recently, Carnahan has been active in efforts to urge federal coordination for modernizing overstressed state and local legacy unemployment insurance and other benefits systems. The weaknesses in those systems have been exposed by claims activity associated with the pandemic and economic crisis.
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