Drew Zachary is Deputy Chief Innovation Officer at the U.S. Census Bureau. Previously, she served as Deputy Chief Data Officer for Innovation at the U.S. Department of Commerce, managing director of Census Open Innovation Labs, and director and co-founder of The Opportunity Project at the Census Bureau—a program that connects communities with open government data to address local challenges. Prior to those roles, she was a policy advisor at the White House Domestic Policy Council and a senior analyst at the Commerce Data Service. Throughout her career, Drew has worked with communities to use data, science, and technology to support economic development and applied human-centered design to improve how federal agencies serve the public. She holds an MPP from Johns Hopkins University and is a PhD candidate in social policy at Brandeis University. She has been recognized as one of the world’s 100 most influential young people in government by Apolitical (2018), a rising star by FCW/GCN’s Government Innovation Awards (2018), and a Federal 100 winner by FCW (2019).
