Co-Founder
Maureen has 14 years of federal experience in four different agencies, beginning as a Presidential Management Fellow and ending as a member of the Senior Executive Service.
Most recently, she served as Deputy COO for USDA Rural Development, where she oversaw IT, HR, and a 470-office real property portfolio; identified $27 million in cost savings; and overhauled the agency’s IT governance process.
Previously, she served as the Director of the U.S. Department of Treasury’s nearly $2 billion RESTORE grant programs, where she reduced the average time to grant award from 233 to 75 days, oversaw the development and launch of a new Salesforce-based grants management system in just four months, and established rigorous standardized outcome metrics for the program.
Earlier in her career, she led the development of the data collection and reporting system for the brand-new U.S. Department of the Treasury’s $1.5 billion State Small Business Credit Initiative, which spurred $8 in private investment for every $1 of public investment and supported 190,000 jobs; drafted the first interagency federal funding opportunity (FFO); and served in the U.S. intelligence community.
Maureen received a B.A. from the College of William and Mary and an M.B.A. and Master of Public Policy from Georgetown University.
Co-Founder
April has been leading digital work in both the private and public sectors for 20 years. She uses her unique combination of public policy education/experience and hands-on technical skills to show government and mission-driven organizations how to deliver services that actually work for people.
As a federal executive at the IRS, she built and led the agency’s first ever user experience (UX) office in 2023, and helped drive some of the most consequential digital modernization efforts in recent years. A key highlight of that work was the creation of a fully government-owned and operated behavioral data generation, collection, analysis, and reporting platform set up to measure meaningful product outcomes as well as provide predictive analytics insights to inform technology roadmaps.
Prior to joining government, April was a product owner in an e-commerce company, a product manager at a boutique application development agency, co-founder of a healthcare startup, and technology executive at an advocacy and government-focused communications agency.
April holds a political science degree from Yale University and a Master of Public Policy degree from Georgetown University.
Senior Advisor
Dana L.R. Fowler is a federal government organizational performance expert. During her 24 year career in federal government she served as Chief Performance Officer at two Health and Human Services bureaus, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2011-2015) and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (2005-2011), as well as the Performance Lead at the Department of the Interior (2023-2025), and as the Deputy of the Performance Improvement Council (2015-2017), a cross-federal coordinating entity. In these roles, she worked with performance staff and leaders at all levels as well as working directly with program leaders to explore their program model, develop goals, and articulate outcomes to manage better and tell their story.
Ms. Fowler, in her longstanding role as Director of Federal Executive Councils Support at GSA (2018-2023), worked with political appointees and career leadership in critical management areas – financial management, performance, personnel, information technology, privacy, evaluation and data. After 8 years in the Center-of-Government, including a year leading a Presidential Commission, she worked with Agency leads across the federal ecosystem and saw common challenges across federal agencies. From her unique perspective, she focuses on government operations, in particular the integration of management functions, the sharing of knowledge within and across the federal enterprise, as well as public transparency.
She has an M.A. in Criminology and Criminal Justice from University of Maryland and a B.A. in Psychology from Vassar College.
After taking the Deferred Resignation Program from Interior in 2025, she is leveraging her insights on projects with the Partnership for Public Service, IBM Center for Excellence in Government, and the newly formed, We the Doers.
Contributor
Meneshea Levy is an esteemed authority in federal IT governance, capital planning,
and enterprise portfolio management, with more than 17 years of proven experience
advancing operational excellence for agencies such as USDA, DOJ, TSA, and DHS. As
a former GS-15 Director and CPIC Branch Chief, she has skillfully managed
multimillion-dollar IT portfolios, developed comprehensive acquisition strategies, and
implemented business process enhancements that have significantly improved agency outcomes.
Her leadership encompasses all phases of the federal IT investment lifecycle, including
budget formulation, TBM reporting, OMB compliance, and stage gate reviews. Ms. Levy
has served as a trusted advisor to CIOs and executive stakeholders, distinguished by
her adeptness at translating complex policy frameworks—including OMB, FAR, and
FITARA—into practical, results-driven strategies that foster transparency, accountability, and alignment with organizational missions.
She earned her B.S. in Management Information Systems from the Rochester Institute of Technology and an M.S. in Information Systems Management, focusing on IT Strategy & Governance at Walden University. Additionally, she is a certified Senior IT Program Manager (FAC-P/PM IT Core+) and a graduate of the Partnership for Public Service's Excellence in Government Fellows Program.
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Give doers room to run, and they will.
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Not a technical one.
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