DanielSchuman

About Me

Hi there. I work to promote open, accountable, and effective government, primarily focused on the federal level in the United States. Nowadays, this work is sometimes described as statecraft.

I'm the executive director and founder of the American Governance Institute and the inaugural chair of the U.S. Government's Open Government Federal Advisory Committee. I also founded and coordinate the Congressional Data Coalition, write a weekly newsletter called the First Branch Forecast, and created EveryCRSReport.

If you want to learn more, you can read my work bio, this Wikipedia page, a recent profile in Roll Call, or surf (do people still surf?) to LinkedIn. I'm also on Twitter, Mastodon, and Bluesky.

From time to time I teach classes, give speeches, and testify before Congress. For the last two years, I've lectured at the Data Skills for Congress program at UC Berkeley's Goldman School of Public Policy, and was a CodeX fellow at the Stanford Center for Legal Informatics. I like to tinker with technology in collaboration with friends who actually know what they're doing. I'm always learning, and completed a class in 2023 at Stanford on Ethics, Technology, and Public Policy, which was primarily focused on AI.

My work interests include the architecture of power, how rules shape outcomes in the Legislative branch, the appropriations process, and the Congressional Technology Innovation Cycle.