About.

Blacks in Civc Tech organizations aims to increase the amount of Black technologists in civic tech and provide a community that encourages growth and fulfillment in the field. 

BNCT (which stands for Blacks in Civic Tech) is a non-profit that aims to remove barriers for Blacks to lead, participate, thrive in and enjoy the field of civic tech in federal, state, and local government (contractor or employee) across the world through programming and community.

Blacks in Civic Tech, LLC  aims to increase the amount of Black civic technologists in Government by promoting jobs and developing a talent network to ensure that organizations hire diverse talent, strengthening the Black civic technology pipeline.
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What's Civic Tech?

It's designing, building, & implementing better services, technology and
policies to better solve public problems

Established in 2022

We aim to change the trajectory and close the Black civic tech gap by increasing the number of Black civic technologists as the discipline of civic tech begins to take on the complex task of creating a better relationship between people and the government by rethinking services and service delivery models to better serve people.

Our Goal

We aim to remove barriers for Blacks to lead, participate, thrive in and enjoy the field of civic tech in federal, state, and local government (contractor or employee) across the world.

The Founders

Lashanda Hodge
Founder

Lashanda has worked in government for 3 years. She brought skills from the private sector such as human-centered design and customer experience to design and deliver better products and services to the American public. 
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Ronald Hodge, II
Co-founder

 Ronald has worked in government for 12 years. Since starting in government, he has worked to improve the government’s use of data to provide better operations and service delivery to the American public.

Why Create Blacks in Civic Tech?

Government doesn't do a good job designing vital services. To do better, we need to focus on developing capabilities that exist in the private sector to deliver services - civic tech. To ensure those services are equitably designed, developed, and delivered, you need diverse talent doing this work inside of government. This work is quite difficult to do as well, changing how agencies think about how they design and deliver. This can often leave individuals feeling alone and even it can be even more isolating doing this work when you are a person of color. We wanted to help bring together Blacks and their allies to help lift each other up so we can do this hard work of making government services both better and equitable.

This page is operated jointly by Blacks in Civic Tech, LLC and BNCT

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