Jordan Shapiro

Public interest technologist and community organizer. I am the bridge between the policy wonks and the technologists. With a master's in international politics, I help people navigate the policy landscape, and build the operations systems, full stack applications, and agentic workflows communities run on.

Experience

JD Digitalization · Founder

Data and operations consultancy for nonprofits and small businesses. Project management, tool building, technology advising, community organizing, and policy advocacy.

Women's Sports Schedule API and Website, womensportcentral.com

• A website and API aggregating women's sports schedules, covering 168+ leagues and competitions across 57 sports
• Manage the full stack: collecting schedule data from each league, building and running the site, and keeping it up to date
• Google Workspace administrator
• Instagram promotion @womensportcentral, 219 followers

BetaNYC (client, civic technology nonprofit, New York)

• CityCamp Unconference program manager and volunteer manager 2025 and 2026. School of Data presenter 2025. School of Data 2026 and Unschool of Data 2026 program and volunteer manager 2026
• Developed and implemented BetaBuilders, BetaNYC's sustaining donor program. Grew sustaining donors 72% in two months
• Built a governance dashboard for the Associate Board tracking member participation and attendance
• Designed and implemented Associate Board operations process and bylaws scalably for current and future cohorts

Tech and operations support

• Wilka's, a queer sports bar in New York. Built a one-stop hub for accounts, vendors, and operating documents. Google Workspace administrator
• Nurtured Home Cleaning, a small business. Client assessment on a Jobber CRM migration

Present Moment Enterprises · Chief Operations Officer and Data Principal

• Operations and technology support for the business, including the funding pipeline: a date-sorted opportunity tracker and a funding SOP covering eligibility filters and the path from prospect to submitted application
• Redesigned and rebuilt the company website, and maintain it
• Designed and launched bespoke, lightweight project management software for the team
• Google Workspace administrator
• Review grant applications and partner proposals before submission
• Ran a research project giving a client experience and training in public procurement, and built them a database of procurement options

Progressive Policy Institute · Economic and Data Policy Analyst, Director of Innovation Frontier Project

• Directed the Innovation Frontier Project, a $100,000 emerging technology policy publication. Rebuilt the editorial pipeline from topic selection through approvals, growing it from 3 concurrent papers to 11
• Lead data analyst for Investment Heroes, a ten-year dataset estimating Fortune 500 U.S. capital spending. Built the project's first Python pipeline against the SEC EDGAR API, replacing manual collection
• Led the transition from Google Sheets to HubSpot CRM, scoping platforms and surveying staff needs for long-term sustainability
• Delivered organization-wide training on data collection practice
• Wrote 10 papers, blogs, articles, and reports on AI, privacy, and data protection

Global Student Embassy · Director of Operations, Travel and Outreach Manager

• Ran operations for a sustainability education nonprofit working with schools in California, Ecuador, and Nicaragua, coordinating with in-country partners to keep programs running smoothly
• Managed the university program, training university students to organize their peers and travel to partner communities in Ecuador and Nicaragua
• Administered the 10,000+ record Salesforce database behind the programs, working with staff in four countries

Civic and public interest technology

BetaNYC Associate Board Member

• Volunteer Associate Board member, invited into an official capacity after CityCamp NYC 2025
• Lead a volunteer group for young professionals of every background in civic tech work
• Leading Associate Board retention. 50% of the current crew has served a year or more and 25% have been there since it started

Civic Stoop · Client

• Data mapping: built a visual map of the platform's data sources

NYC Administrative Code RAG LLM

• A domain-specific large language model (LLM) that uses retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) on the NYC administrative code to democratize access to local laws
• Currently retrieves Titles 8, 9 and 10 of the NYC Administrative Code

Research and speaking

Op-eds, The Hill

• We need to protect children's data online, but let's protect everyone's data while we're at it
• New digital privacy bills won't protect women seeking abortions

Panelist / speaker

• Co-moderator, Privacy in a Post-Roe World, with Rep. Suzan DelBene (D-WA), PPI Women's History Month Forum, Rayburn House Office Building, March 2023
• Sprite+ Hub, Why can't the U.S. achieve privacy adequacy with the EU?

Interviews / quotes

• Quoted in Bloomberg and Bloomberg Government on AI and federal technology policy. Featured in the Channel News Asia documentary "The Deepening US-China Tech War"

Research

• An overview of global AI regulation and what's next
• Regulating technology as a public good
• The UK Online Safety Bill is well-intentioned but will undermine privacy
• Why is digital privacy so complicated?

Education, certifications, associations

• Sprite+ Hub for Trust, Identity, Privacy, and Security Expert Fellow: 2022 – Present
• University of Southern California (2021): Los Angeles, CA. Certificate in Data Analytics
• Aberystwyth University (2015): Aberystwyth, Wales, UK. Master of Arts, International Politics. Rotary Global Grant Scholar Grantee
• University of Rochester (2014): Rochester, NY. Bachelor of Arts in International Relations and History, Minor in Russian. US-UK Fulbright Recipient, Wales Summer Institute

Tools

Python (Pandas, BeautifulSoup, Selenium, Flask, NLTK, Matplotlib, Seaborn, TensorFlow), SQL, Salesforce, HubSpot, Airtable, Google Apps Script, Notion, Git, Render