Hey, my name is Nancy Scola. I'm a Brooklyn-based writer who writes mostly on technology and food policy, with an eye towards politics and culture. Hop
on over to this page
for links to some of my more recent work.
As for my professional background, it really begins when, after a post-grad school stint at a DC-based non-profit
where I spent my days mapping large data sets drawn from urban American
neighborhoods, I made the move over to Capitol Hill. There I spent a little
under five years working on what was then called the House Government
Reform Committee, under Henry Waxman of California. I started on the committee
building their online communications program, and later moved into handling
policy issues in some way related to either information management or
technology. Leaving the Hill, I joined a team put together by former Virginia
governor Mark Warner as he considered making a White House run, charged
with syncing the policy and technology sides of his (pre-)campaign. I
later settled in New York full time, and when the progressive radio station
Air America relaunched under new ownership, I began writing a political
blog for them as chief blogger and editor. After a time there, I went
out on my own, which is where this story began.
In addition to my independent writing work, I also have a handful of
associations and side projects. I serve as a contributing editor at
TechPresident, a member of the Netroots Advisory Board for the Drum
Major Institute, and as a regular contributor to the Huffington Post.
I run an interview project called Hearing Progressive Voices. And at
points in the past, I served as a front-page blogger on MyDD, an advisor
to the Open House Project, and as a consultant to such organizations
as the AFL-CIO and Personal Democracy Forum.
Finally, I've also managed to fit in getting an education and growing
up. As to the former, I got one of them B.A.s, in anthropology and Africana
studies from the George Washington University, and then I went and got
one of them M.A.s, in anthropology, from Boston University. As to the
latter, I came of age in northern New Jersey, where I carefully plotted
out my eventual career as a professional soccer player.
