senior fellow

Denice Ross

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data policy,
open government,
democratizing data

Denice W. Ross is a Senior Fellow at the Federation of American Scientists where she is building a Federal Data Use Case Repository documenting the value that federal datasets bring to American lives and livelihoods. Denice is a seasoned organizer of diverse data colleagues across civil society, academia, tech companies, and all levels of government. Most recently, she served as the Deputy U.S. Chief Technology Officer and as the U.S. Chief Data Scientist, where she led the charge to use disaggregated data to drive better outcomes for all Americans. Denice’s 25-year career using data to serve the public interest has spanned federal and local government, academia, and the nonprofit sector plus domains ranging from climate to policing.