This spring, Lili Gangas was one of the people announced as a 2018 New America CA Fellow. New America is a civic nonprofit working to amplify the reach of California change agents whose innovations solve public problems in bold new ways.

This year's cohort will focus on economic opportunity, education, tech for good, and civic engagement.

Lili Gangas will be creating/fostering an inclusive tech ecosystem and regional economic growth.

This is Lili's story:

Lili Gangas is a 2018 New America CA Fellow and the chief technology community officer at the Kapor Center for Social Impact. In this role, Lili helps catalyze Oakland’s emergence as a social impact hub of tech done right – where tech, diverse talent, and action driven partnerships can tackle pressing social and economic inequities of our communities. Lili advises inclusive tech entrepreneurship ecosystem building activities and Oakland initiatives such as Oakland Startup Network, TechHire Oakland, Kapor Center Innovation Lab to name a few.

Before coming to the Kapor Center, Lili was an associate principal at Accenture Technology Lab’s Open Innovation team, based out of Silicon Valley, building bridges between startups and commercial clients. She was also a founding member of the Innovation Services team at Booz Allen specializing in crowdsourcing, prize challenges, and open data solutions at the federal level. Before that, Lili could be found in the lab working on software and hardware solutions for the aerospace industry as a Senior Multi-Disciplined Software Engineer at Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems.

Lili is a proud immigrant from Bolivia who believes in fostering inclusive tech ecosystems for all. Lili holds an MBA from New York University Stern School of Business, a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California and Systems Engineering Certification from UCLA Extension.