Xena Ni is a designer, organizer, and artist who believes in public institutions that work for everybody. To that end, she has spent the majority of her 10 year design career transforming public services. As Director of Design at Alloy, she led the design and research team behind election protection and voter registration services for progressive campaigns and causes. While a Design Manager at Nava PBC, she launched improvements to HealthCare.gov and simplified public benefit applications with the state of Vermont. Prior to that, she served as a Code for America Fellow after co-founding Propel, a civic technology start-up. Throughout all of this, she makes art to advocate for equitable public policy. Her installations have been written up in CityLab, the Washingtonian, and the Washington Post.
