Meet the Team 🍉🎆🇺🇸 Summer 2020
Katie Aloisi (she/ her), Designer @ Department of Homeland Security Digital Service. Previously at Fannie Mae. From Vienna, VA.

I spent most of my career in consulting (at EY and PwC), where I helped government and commercial organizations apply human-centered design to improve products, services, and experiences for their customers. Most recently I worked at Fannie Mae, where I helped reimagine and transform the mortgage industry for the digital age.

The U.S. Digital Service is in many ways a dream job. I’m a mission-driven person and I’ve been looking for a home like USDS, where doing the greatest good for the greatest number of people in the greatest need is actually written into our mission. I’m especially passionate about understanding and helping people who are underrepresented or otherwise lack a voice, and am so excited to be joining the asylum team where I’ll be working to streamline and simplify the asylum process.

What do you most value in your friends?

We’re always there for each other. Whether what we need is a soul-renewing hug (something I’m missing a lot right now!), an inspiring pep talk, a no-judgment venting session, or a giant tub of cheese balls, we have each others’ backs.

What is your idea of perfect happiness?

Waking up to the sound of birds and the prospect of a full day of R&R at the most peaceful place on earth, La Selva Giardino del Belvedere. This is where our closest family and friends converged to celebrate my wedding — and my twin sister’s wedding — last year. Yes, we had a double wedding and I highly recommend it! We spent a whole week embracing la dolce vita, eating pasta and gelato, wandering the olive groves, cooking big family dinners, chatting by the fireplace, and sitting in the many spectacular outdoor spaces planning our next visit.

What is the trait you most deplore in others?

Two related traits: resignation and complacency. These can be dangerous things, for oneself, and at a large enough scale, for the world! I’m already so inspired by the optimism, tenacity, and initiative I see among USDS’ers working on the most pressing and intractable challenges in government.
['U.S. Digital Service']
['Team And Culture', 'Engineering', 'Civictech', 'Design', 'Government']