Nava PBC Gets a New Advisor Straight from the US Digital Service

The White House

Nava PBC, the civic tech startup that emerged from the initially-disastrous launch of HealthCare.gov, announced on Thursday that it has expanded its advisory council. The new member? Former head of the U.S. Digital Service, Mikey Dickerson.

Dickerson, who ABC News described as “the disheveled White House staffer who’s cleaning up government IT” when he was appointed to the USDS in 2014, was part of the team that worked to revive HealthCare.gov in 2013. After that he led the USDS until the close of the Obama Administration transition period — the Nava position is described as “one of the first” he’s taken on since leaving that post. (His LinkedIn currently describes his professional title as “free radical.”)

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