The team · c/o Values for America
Builders of the civic operating system.
Values for America is a small founding team augmented by contributors, advisors, and volunteers from across the civic-tech, legal, journalism, and engineering communities.
Founder
“Origin signal”
Founder
Values for America · Architect, OpenOS
Values for America was founded and is being built by a single operator, working from the architecture document that became OpenOS. The founder's full identity and professional background will be published when the organization's nonprofit structure is formed.
Per our own transparency doctrine: the founder's legal name, professional background, and any financial relationships relevant to the organization will be disclosed before public launch.
Advisors & Contributors
“Open seats”
We are actively building out the advisory board and contributor team. Target profiles include: constitutional law scholars, civic-tech veterans, former elected officials from both parties who understand the problem from the inside, First Amendment and media lawyers, data engineers, security researchers, and civil-liberties advocates from across the ideological spectrum.
If you are one of these people, we want to hear from you.
Open roles
“Join the team”
Values for America is recruiting contributors, advisors, and volunteers. If you have skills in any of the following areas and you believe the Constitution is worth building operational infrastructure around — we want to talk.
- → Python / FastAPI / SQLAlchemy backend
- → Data-ingest pipelines (Congress.gov, FEC, state APIs)
- → SI-assisted drafting, evaluation and constitutional analysis
- → Frontend: Jinja2, Alpine.js, Tailwind (or your stack of choice)
- → Infrastructure: Railway, PostgreSQL, Celery
- → Security: authentication, abuse prevention, data-integrity checks
- → Constitutional law scholarship & review
- → Civic-tech strategy and partnerships
- → Media and First Amendment law
- → Investigative journalism / primary source verification
- → Policy / legislative relations
- → Fundraising, development, donor relations
- → Communications and mission storytelling
How to reach us
Email hello@valuesforamerica.com with a short note on what you would like to work on and any relevant background. We are looking for people who will be here in five years. More ways to reach us are on the contact page.