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Nancy Scola
249 Garfield Place, Apt. 1
Brooklyn, NY 11215
(202) 257-8511
nancyscola@gmail.com
nancyscola.com

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2006-Present
Forward Together PAC; Governor Mark R. Warner, Honorary Chairman
Policy Advisor and Outreach Coordinator
Serve as aide to Governor Warner with responsibility for advancing policy positions through memos and briefings around issues of technology, including network neutrality, municipal wireless, intellectual property, and media consolidation; and developing plan for and directing strategic political outreach to technology communities, including formal and informal discussions with leading technologists.

Additional responsibilities and accomplishments include writing about these efforts on the Forward Together PAC blog and other political blogs, including MyDD and Daily Kos, and directing the Governor's widely-reported efforts in Second Life, a multi-player online game.

2003-2006
U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Government Reform; Representative Henry A. Waxman, Ranking Member
Professional Staff Member
Served as legislative aide with primary responsibility for technology and information policy for the main investigative and oversight committee in the United States House of Representatives, under the direction of Representative Henry A. Waxman. Responsibilities and accomplishments included:

• Acted as lead staffer responsible for conducting research, drafting hearing statements and questions, composing correspondence, and meeting with stakeholders on a range of issues related to technology and/or information (e.g., the Federal Information Security Management Act, network security, intelligence agency information sharing, intellectual property, international trade restrictions, electronic privacy, Internet architecture, campaign finance and the Internet, electronic voting , election reform).
• Worked with Department of Defense to eliminate restrictions on the access to voting resources for U.S. military and civilians living overseas.
• Researched and authored a set of staff reports on peer-to-peer file sharing released by both the Democratic and Republican offices of the Committee.
• Drafted H.R. 3159, Government Network Security Act, passed by the House in 2003.

Additionally serve as primary writer and editor of the Committee’s online communications. Responsibilities and accomplishments include:

• Authored frequent email briefings on the Committee’s work for distribution to both internal government audiences and the general public.
• Drafted communications on a range of issues (e.g., campaign finance reform, intelligence breaches, government contracting) for posting on web logs and other online venues.

2001-2003
U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Government Reform; Representative Henry A. Waxman, Ranking Member
Information Manager
Directed the online communications of the Committee on Government Reform. Responsibilities included the design and development of the official Committee website and the expansion of the Committee’s online presence. Accomplishments include:

• Increased unique monthly visits to the Committee website more than tenfold; site received Congressional Management Foundation Gold Mouse Award in 2003.
• Cultivated online contacts and grew highly-targeted email list of Capitol Hill staff, non-profit leaders, and activists.
• Developed online projects (e.g., Iraq on the Record – The Bush Administration’s Public Statements on Iraq, Politics & Science – Investigating the State of Science under the Bush Administration) widely cited both online and in print, including mentions in the New York Times and Washington Post.
• After 18 months, promoted to Professional Staff Member for technology and information policy.

1999-2001
Social Compact
Research Development Associate
Designed and implemented research techniques for non-profit organization focused on encouraging business investment in underdeveloped urban neighborhoods. Skills acquired include the use of geographic information systems (GIS) to plot and analyze large data sets.

AFL-CIO Sponsored Blogger for the 2006 election cycle; Contributing Editor at the Personal Democracy Forum; Contributing Writer at iCommons, Founder and Editor of Darfur Watch; Interface Designer for Baltimore City Medicare Part D Surveillance and Response Initiative (recognized by the National Association of County & City Health Officials as a model practice in public health). For writing clips, please see nancyscola.com/clips.

• "Network Neutrality" at the Yearly Kos Convention (Las Vegas, NV, 2006)
• "The Rising Power of Local Political Blogs" at the Personal Democracy Forum Conference (moderator) (New York, NY, 2006)

1998-1999
Anthropology, M.A. with Thesis, Boston University
Graduate Fellow, African Studies Center at Boston University
Awarded U.S. Department of Education Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship for East African studies
Master’s Thesis: The Slave State in 19th Center Muslim East Africa

1994-1998
Anthropology/Africana Studies, B.A., The George Washington University
Awarded Lewis B. Cotlow Field Research Grant for research among refugee population in Nairobi, Kenya

2005
Seminar Participant, ILAW Cambridge, Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard Law School
Completed program on legal, economic, and public interest debates surrounding the Internet; selected as moderator of participant dinner on “What Can the Internet Teach Washington?”

2005
Alumni Auditor, The Politics of International Law, The George Washington University
Completed graduate-level coursework on the political sources and consequences of international law and norms; completed final project assessing U.S. participation in the International Criminal Court.

1999
Graduate Student, Summer Cooperative African Language Institute, Yale University
Completed advanced training in Swahili language and literature study; awarded U.S. Department of Education Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship.

1995-1996
Legislative Intern, Office of Senator Carol Moseley Braun
Served as assistant to legislative aide on health care, housing, and women’s issues.

1994-1995
Intern, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution
Trained in and assisted with the preservation of American Indian artifacts for museum exhibition.

• Unpaid Communications Advisor, Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle (2004)
• Advisor, L.A. PAC, Political Action Committee of Rep. Henry A. Waxman (2004 - 2006)
• Caucus Observer, Howard Dean for President; Davenport, IA (January 2004)
• Precinct Captain, Tony Knowles for Senate; Wasilla, AK (October-November 2004)
• Volunteer, Brad Miller for United States House of Representatives; Raleigh, NC (October-November 2002)

• Member, Communications Committee, DC Vote; Washington, DC (2001-2004)
• Instructor, English as a Second Language, American Universities Preparation Institute; Nairobi, Kenya (1997)
• Instructor, English as a Second Language, School Without Walls High School; Washington DC (1996-1997)

• Finisher, United States Marine Corps Marathon (2001, 2002, 2003)
• Foreign travel: Dominican Republic (2005), France (2005), Ghana (2001), England (2001, 2000, 1996, 1994), Kenya (1997), Scotland (1996), and Italy (1994)