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Michael Gifford (he/him)

Open Standards and Practices Lead, CivicActions

Mike Gifford is the Open Standards & Practices Lead at CivicActions. CivicActions supports large US Federal Government websites through open-source. A long-time maintainer of the Drupal CMS and a prolific GitHub contributor, Mike builds specialized tools designed to help public agencies achieve more accessible sites.

He is a regular participant at FOSDEM, the world’s largest open-source gathering, where he meets with Digital Government leaders from around the world. Mike also sits on the Board of the Digital Services Coalition, which supports a group of over 50 companies that support the modern, agile governent digital services.