our team
Kate gage
Executive director
Kate Gage (she/hers) focuses on the use of technology and innovation to solve complicated challenges. She spent 8 years in the Obama Administration focusing on innovation and global development at USAID and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. In 2018, she was the Chief of Staff for the March for Our Lives, working with the students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and other organizers in the lead up to the mass mobilization and march on 3/24. She is a Co-Founder of Lab 736, an organization that deploys design and tech talent into local progressive political organizations to ensure they are leveraging technology and data adoption to win elections.
Kate started her political career in Iowa in 2007 as a part of the Obama '08 Campaign.
Oluwakemi Oso
Senior program manager
Oluwakemi “Kemi” Oso (she/hers) has been working within progressive tech spaces since 2015. Her “Left Brain, Right Soul” philosophy leans on her experience as a data engineer, and background as an organizer for reproductive justice and founding organizing chair of BYP100’s DC chapter. This holistic approach uses pop culture & accessible language to break down data & tech concepts - making them more accessible to folks of all backgrounds. Kemi coordinated re:power’s Data x Tech Movement Fellowship in partnership with Ford Foundation, and has trained thousands of organizers.
In 2020, she began working with the Cooperative Impact Lab as a Data Consultant for their Fair Housing cohort. As Senior Program manager, she is excited to establish CIL as the “R&D wing of the movement”, bringing innovative practices to smaller organizations who often get left behind.
Board of Directors
Kate Gage, Cooperative Impact Lab
Raffi Krikorian, Mozilla
James Bradach, People’s Action