Jennifer Pahlka — American Public Servant born on December 30, 1969,

Jennifer Pahlka is the founder and Executive Director of Code for America. Previously she had worked at CMP Media with various roles in the computer game industry. She was the co-chair and general manager of the Web 2.0 conferences... (wikipedia)

It's really remarkable when you think about what we don't like about government, we, the people created. So if we created it, we can also fix it.
When one neighbor helps another, we strengthen our communities.
We have this idea of bureaucracy in local government, and it's generally things that we're frustrated at. It doesn't work the way we like it to work.
You might not think of something like TurboTax as a civic venture, but that product took a confusing interface to a government process and made it simpler and easier to use for citizens.
We have to make bureaucracy sexy.