About Alec Ross

Alec Ross currently serves at the US State Department as Senior Advisor for Innovation in the office of Secretary Clinton. Ross served previously as the convener for technology, media, and telecommunications policy for Obama for America, and as a member of the Obama-Biden Presidential Transition Team where he focused on technology, innovation, and government reform. In 2000, Ross cofounded One Economy, a non-profit, three-person basement operation which, until 2008, he helped lead and grow to a global organization that connects low-income people to the tools of the digital age. Ross began his career as a Teach for America volunteer in Baltimore.