Yasmin Fodil
Managing Director and Principal, BYO Consulting
Yasmin specializes in creative public policy making and how technology can be used to make government and organizations more collaborative, participatory, transparent, and accountable. Yasmin leads the day-to-day operation of BYO consulting and is the principal consultant for the firm.
Yasmin received a Masters in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School, where she focused her studies on Democracy, Politics, and Institutions. Prior to graduate school, Yasmin was the Information Officer for the Office of the Arts and Special Projects at the NYC Department of Education. She has served on the Student Digital Advisory Board for the Shorenstein Center for Press, Politics, and Public Policy, the Program Committee for O’Reilly’s Gov 2.0 Expo, and regularly blogs at wethegoverati.wordpress.com. Yasmin received her bachelor’s degree in Government from Cornell University.
While at the Kennedy School she co-founded the Government 2.0 Professional Interest Council, which works to encourage the integration of Government 2.0 principles into the curricula and events at the Kennedy School and wrote her masters thesis on how U.S. Federal Agencies can Use Social Media to Increase Civic Participation. Along with her colleagues at Mass.gov, MIT, and O’Reilly, she co-hosted the first annual New England Government 2.0 Camp, and is looking forward to participating in the next one.
| Languages: English. Focus: Community engagement, social media and government, democracy and media. |
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