Marina Nitze (she/her)

Marina Nitze, co-author of Crisis Engineering and Hack Your Bureaucracy, is currently a partner at Layer Aleph, a crisis engineering firm that specializes in restoring complex business systems to service.

Marina is also a fellow at New America's New Practice Lab, where she works on improving America's foster care system through the Child Welfare Playbook & Working Group. 

Marina was most recently the Chief Technology Officer of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs under President Obama, after serving as a Senior Advisor on technology in the Obama White House and as the first Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the U.S. Department of Education.

She serves on the board of Renaissance Philanthropy and advisory boards of Center for Civic Futures, Foster America, Foster Insights, Grandfamilies & Kinship Support Network, Recoding America, Tech Viaduct, and Think of Us. She lives in Seattle, WA.