Hilary is executive director of OpenSecrets. Her background spans the nexus of emerging technology and social change, spending several years at IDEO in Silicon Valley and more recently, serving as a Public Service Fellow at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Together with her experience as a Technology Policy Design Fellow at the Aspen Institute, Hilary has demonstrated a commitment to safeguarding the integrity and accessibility of elections. Hilary is co-founder of two organizations: Dare to Innovate, a youth entrepreneurship incubator in West Africa and Oze, Africa’s first mobile business insights platform. Hilary received her Master’s in Public Administration from Harvard University, her Bachelor’s degree in economics and political science from Marquette University, and was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Guinea (2011-2014).