Denice W. Ross

Executive Fellow in Applied Technology Policy

Focus

Former Deputy U.S. Chief Technology Officer for Tech Capacity and U.S. Chief Data Scientist, White House Office of Science & Technology Policy

Biography

Denice Ross is a seasoned organizer of data colleagues across civil society, academia, tech companies, and all levels of government. She served as the deputy U.S. CTO and U.S. chief data scientist in the Biden-Harris Administration, where she led the data strategy to implement the Biden-Harris equity agenda on issues such as policing, LGBTQI+, disability, military families, Puerto Rico recovery, and gun violence, and established the U.S. Tech Policy Network as a conduit for federal policymakers to easily engage with thousands of state, local, tribal, and territorial tech and data leaders.