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October 9, 2024

Claflin University alumna and USDC Fellow Thalia Butts recounts how her HBCU experience instilled in her a heart for community, care, and service, prompting her to serve in her gifts boldly and with confidence.

By Thalia Butts
September 19, 2024

In honor of USDC’s third anniversary and to celebrate the start of USDC's 2024 cohort, Fellows reflect on their experiences and how USDC has impacted their career.

August 30, 2024

70 new fellows will apply their skills and expertise in the federal workplace. More than 40 fellows will focus on AI-related projects.

August 13, 2024

2022 cohort of U.S. Digital Corps fellows marks major milestone.

June 26, 2024

As our first cohort prepares for graduation this month, they reflected on their experience as USDC Fellows.

June 21, 2024

Two U.S. Digital Corps data science Fellows share their paths and experiences as data scientists in the federal government.

By Vivian Vasquez, Ethan Jantz
June 11, 2024

U.S. Digital Corps Fellow Kira Tebbe summarizes four priorities and values that simply take time: consideration of the public's time, privacy, accessibility and equity, and scope.

By Kira Tebbe
February 8, 2024

Mentorship is a key element of the U.S. Digital Corps Fellow experience. This National Mentoring Month we are sharing reflections from several Fellows and their mentors on the importance of mentoring and the value it has in helping launch a career in public service.

By Izzie Zahorian, Louisa Sholar, Matt Dobson, Espy Thomson, Marina DeFrates
January 31, 2024

USDC was included as a key part of the National Artificial Intelligence (AI) Talent Surge in President Biden’s executive order on AI and will recruit for AI-enabling fellows as part of its data science track this year.

October 31, 2023

Six U.S. Digital Corps Fellows share their Latinx heritage and reflect on how they show up as their full selves to serve the public through technology.

By Melissa Guzman, Vivian Vasquez, Yaritza M. García Chaparro, Eduardo Perez, Bella Mendoza, Lylybell Teran
October 13, 2023

Three USDC Fellows share their work supporting two inaugural life experience projects at the Department of Health and Human Services: Having a Child and Early Childhood, and Facing a Financial Shock.

By Samantha Noshin Noor, Kennedy Alexis, Louisa Sholar
October 3, 2023

U.S. Digital Corps Director Caitlin Gandhi introduces USDC's new blog and the publication of our first agency impact story in celebration of USDC's second anniversary.

By Caitlin Gandhi
August 30, 2023

Eleven U.S. Digital Corps Fellows from our inaugural 2022 cohort reflect on what they've learned about serving as technologists in the federal government at the end of their first year.

July 18, 2023

Nearly 50 new fellows will support 13 federal agencies to advance key Biden-Harris Administration priorities.

July 18, 2023

U.S. Digital Corps Fellows Kathleen Carroll and Trey Gordner share digital innovation efforts launched by the Department of Health and Human Services at the 2023 Health Datapalooza, including the Health Equity DataJam, a public call to transform HHS data into actionable insights and digital tools to help bridge health disparities.

By Kathleen Carroll, Trey Gordner, and Kristen Honey
February 23, 2023

Four U.S. Digital Corps sofware engineering fellows share their paths to becoming software engineers and why they decided to use their skills to improve government services.

By Anastasia Gradova, Isabel Laurenceau, Meenu Bhooshanan, Samira Sadat
November 25, 2022

U.S. Digital Corps Fellow Kathleen Carroll and her team introduce the Health+ Long COVID Report, which centers the voices of people living with Long COVID and was written with over 1,000 hours of interviews, workshops, and research. The report provides an opportunities framework and recommendations for advancing equitable change.

By Kristen Honey, Kathleen Carroll, Michael Iademarco
November 21, 2022

U.S. Digital Corps Fellow Meredith Brown reflects on her journey to civic tech and her impactful work supporting the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and the Equitable Federal Funding Interagency Working Group in ensuring that the implementation of key legislation is done equitably.

By Meredith Brown
November 16, 2022

For National Cybersecurity Awareness Month in October 2022, U.S. Digital Corps Fellow Jamila Crawford reflected on her public service career path from working as a probation and parole office in Georgia to working in cybersecurity at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA).

By Jamila Crawford
October 24, 2022

Five Veterans in our inaugural 2022 cohort share their public service journeys from various military branches and positions to working in civic tech with the U.S. Digital Corps.

By Dahianna Salazar Foreman
September 9, 2022

GSA Administrator Robin Carnahan, OPM Director Kiran Ahuja, and USDS Administrator Mina Hsiang comment on the occasion of the U.S. Digital Corps' first anniversary.

September 7, 2022

The President's Management Agenda team shares a case study on the U.S. Digital Corps, highlighting how USDC supports two pillars of the PMA — strengthening and empowering the federal workforce and delivering excellent, equitable, and secure customer experiences for the American people.

August 30, 2022

GSA Administrator Robin Carnahan comments of the announcement of the inaugural class of U.S. Digital Corps Fellows.

June 21, 2022

Federal Chief Information Officer Clare Martorana highlights several projects that the inaugural cohort of USDC Fellows will support and offers her support: "Creating new ways to bring technology talent into the Federal Government is crucial to our efforts to protect, serve, and inspire the American people in today’s digital age."

By Clare Martorana
June 10, 2022

We asked 18F and Centers of Excellence alum Brian Whittaker, who is now at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, to share his thoughts on why it is so important to focus on diversity and representation when building the technology workforce in government, and his advice for managers and early-career employees alike.

By Brian Whittaker
March 22, 2022

Ans Bradford, a front-end web developer at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, shares his journey to civic tech and public service via several fellowship programs and his work supporting CFPB's internal design system as part of USDC's series of profiles on public interest technologists in the federal government.

By Chris Kuang
March 7, 2022

U.S. Digital Corps co-lead Masha Danilova shares a personal reflection on her path to public service and announces the application opening date for the first cohort of USDC Fellows.

By Masha Danilova
November 1, 2021

Data scientist Avena Cheng at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services shares her path to public service and her work supporting modernizing data processes for data.cms.gov as part of USDC's series of profiles on public interest technologists in the federal government.

By Dahianna Salazar Foreman
October 25, 2021

Five GSA colleagues who started their tech careers in public service share their backgrounds, experiences, and reflections to showcase the variety of opportunities available for technologists to make an impact in government.

By Dahianna Salazar Foreman
October 7, 2021

U.S. Digital Corps co-lead Chris Kuang shares a more personal reflection on the program's launch and what the Digital Corps represents as a 21st century call to public service echoing President Kennedy's famous "ask not what your country can do for you" speech.

By Chris Kuang
August 31, 2021

GSA announces the U.S. Digital Corps as a new talent program that will recruit software engineers, data scientists, and other technologists to improve citizen-facing services in partnership with OPM and the White House.

August 30, 2021

Look no further, mission-oriented IT jobseekers! A new Federal government initiative, the United States Digital Corps , is a two year-long paid fellowship opportunity for those wanting to direct their IT and digital skills and interests toward public service-oriented projects at scale.

July 23, 2021