Rebecca Piazza, Executive Director of Safety Net Strategy at Code for America, brings over 25 years of leadership in government and civic technology. She served in the Biden-Harris Administration as Chief of Staff at the USDA’s Food and Nutrition Service, modernizing delivery of SNAP, WIC, and other nutrition programs. At Shorenstein, she will focus on helping journalists and civil society organizations better understand changes in safety net programs and government technology, providing technical and policy expertise to support reporting and public-facing projects that make complex systems more accessible.