Talk Videos from Civic Hacker Summit

Matt Scott is a social impact storyteller passing the mic to the changemakers who often go unheard. Matt leads storytelling at the world's leading climate solutions resource Project Drawdown, and is also the creator of inclusive impact storytelling project Let's Care, where he's interviewed 100+ changemakers and created the film 20s & Change: San Francisco, recognized at the 2021 San Francisco Black Film Festival. Previously, Matt led the world's largest global hackathon with NASA, while also working alongside partners including Nike, Pivotal Ventures by Melinda Gates, the United Nations, and the Obama White House. Over his career, he's reached half a billion people in the digital space.

Anthony is an independent developer/designer interested in data visualization, building tools,
and combining Art+Code.

Anthony has created several open-source tools including SVGo (SVG generation),
deck/decksh (markup and domain-specific languages for information displays and presentations), and dchart (a charting package built in deck). In 2019 he made digital re-creations of the
Du Bois Data Stories using decksh.

Allen Hillery is the co-founder of Be Data Lit (https://bedatalit.com/), an educational resource for data literacy advocates. In addition to launching BDL, Allen is a teacher's assistant who develops training programs and hosts workshops on data literacy and data storytelling. Allen has a data career that spans 20 years in data reporting, analytics and storytelling supporting sales and marketing teams with insights to drive their business. Allen has a Bachelor's of Engineering Degree in Civil Engineering from the City College of New York and a Master's of Science in Management Information Systems from Baruch College. Although his path to data has been a more technical one, he's here to help you understand that it’s not the only journey. His favorite quote is - "You don’t have to be a data scientist to be data literate." Allen is a data storyteller who’s passionate about building community and spotlighting notable figures who used data to make an impact on society. One notable figure he's passionate about getting recognized in the Data Visualization space is W.E.B. Du Bois.