Bio
Bonnie Wolfe is a serial tech entrepreneur, technical educator, speaker, community builder, software product manager, program manager and consultant. She had her first tech job at 16, started her first tech company by 20, and had her first tech company sale at 30. She has helped hundreds of clients transform their teams, processes and results.
As the current Executive Director of Hack for LA, she has grown the organization to the largest hack night series in the world with 20+ project teams comprised of over 500 active participants globally, focusing solely on open source civic tech with projects from resources to fight food insecurity to a global catalog of civic tech open source projects. She is also the Pacific Regional Representative of Code for America’s National Advisory Council where she spearheads a project to systematize the sharing of effective practices in civic tech, gov tech, edtech and related communities of interest.
She is also the Open Source Community Manager Contractor on the GitHub Social Impact team where she supports the work of the monitoring, evaluation, research and learning (MERL) Center. The MERLS Centers is a community creating resources about the intersection of MERL and open source, data science and human-centered design, for people of any technology capacity.