Rebecca Williams

Rebecca Williams is an open government advocate, both in her day job at the Sunlight Foundation, and in her work organizing DC Legal Hackers. Rebecca co-founded DC Legal Hackers to bring together a broad range of people interested in building apps using the law – software developers, lawyers, publishers, civil servants, and others, who might not otherwise meet in their professional lives. The group’s members have made some important strides in opening municipal codes, advocating for Congress to use structured budget data, and building powerful apps on top of open data sets. Rebecca was recently named one of 10 Women to Watch in Legal Tech by the ABA Journal.