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Lynn Overmann

Executive Director, Beeck Center for Social Impact and Innovation, Georgetown University

Lynn Overmann is the executive director at the Beeck Center for Social Impact + Innovation at Georgetown University. A career spanning policy, data, and delivery has prepared her as a leader intent on maximizing social impact. Lynn’s extensive delivery experience includes serving as a senior advisor for delivery with the U.S. Digital Service, embedded in the Domestic Policy Council. In this role, Lynn oversaw teams of digital service experts across diverse projects, including targeted efforts increase access to federal funding for low-capacity communities, and improving the delivery of safety net benefits. Lynn also served as a senior advisor for delivery at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, where she led the department’s work to leverage data and technology to help streamline critical funding programs. The strategic use of data to improve people’s daily lives has been a constant driver throughout Lynn’s career. She served as a senior data strategist at Opportunity Insights, a Harvard University research and policy institute that leverages big data to improve economic mobility. She also held several senior policy positions at the U.S. Department of Justice, where she helped establish the Access to Justice office, and served as deputy chief data officer in the U.S. Department of Commerce. Lynn also founded the Data-Driven Justice Initiative while working in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.

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