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I’m joining New_ Public to design healthier online spaces

New_ Public is dedicated to designing and building healthy, flourishing digital public spaces. I’m becoming an urban planner for the…

2 min readJun 21, 2022

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I’m joining New_ Public to design healthier online spaces

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Angelica Quicksey

Civic tech has lost its way…again

While I once was hopeful about the future of civic tech, in the year of our Lord 2022, the field has lost its way.

8 min readSep 22, 2022

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A photo of a large white room, populated by a few luminaries from the worlds of public interest technology and tech-for-good. People are trickling in from a reception where there was not enough food — mostly fruit and water and alcohol. There is a dark, red overlay on the image. The words “civic” and “tech” are written in bold letters. The definitions of these words are written beneath them, using the definitions that come up when you Google “define civic” or “define tech.”

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Angelica Quicksey

Predictions and hopes for the next decade of civic tech

Reflecting on the past and looking toward the future of the field

10 min readJan 25, 2021

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Quote from the article positioned over an image of a design workshop with San Francisco in 2012.

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Black Past, Present, and Future Technologists: Celebrating Black History Month at Nava

For Black History Month, Nava is celebrating Black technologists past and present.

5 min readFeb 26, 2020

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Graphic with images of five black technologists, and the words Alan & Marian & Mark & Janet & Erica

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Learning to Embrace Ambiguity

Teaching Harvard Students to Embrace Design, Innovation, and Discomfort

5 min readSep 26, 2019

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The article title “Learning to Embrace Ambiguity” written in yellow on top of a darkened picture of post-it notes.

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Angelica Quicksey

On Wisdom: Simple Words for Uncertain Times

This essay is for my brother, and anyone else looking for simple words of wisdom this November.

5 min readNov 3, 2018

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On Wisdom: Simple Words for Uncertain Times

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Angelica Quicksey

Service Design for Public Policy

Originally researched and written as part of an independent study for the Harvard Graduate School of Design.

22 min readSep 30, 2018

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Service Design for Public Policy

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Angelica Quicksey

Angelica Quicksey

🤠 Cowboy boots & community 👾 Urban planner for the internet at New_Public ⚡️ Board at Technologists for the Public Good 👉🏽 Opinions mine

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