Meet and Greet: Greg Bloom
We are thrilled to welcome long-time collaborative partner, Greg Bloom, to the Inform USA leadership team as the Director of Strategy & Partnerships. In this role, Greg will work with Inform USA’s staff, committees, and state affiliates to develop their policy platform, partnership models, and engagement strategies. This role will also serve as the facilitator of the Taxonomy Task Force, which is developing policy recommendations and industry guidance for human service classification methods. Join us on January 31st for a meet and greet-style session with Greg to learn about his career and vision for Inform USA.
Greg Bloom is the founder of Open Referral, which is promoting open access to information about the health, human, and social services available to people in need. He is a strategic advisor on community resources and engagement for the Gravity Project. He is also a visiting scholar at Indiana University’s Ostrom Workshop on the Commons. Previously, Greg managed communications for Bread for the City in DC. He is a cooperative developer and community organizer, with experience in GOTV, class-action labor lawsuits, municipal budget battles, death penalty abolition campaigns, community wireless networks, and even a backyard-chicken legalization movement. He has been a fellow with Provisions Library and Civic Hall Labs, and has published writing in In These Times, Civic Quarterly, Personal Democracy Forum, and Code for America’s Beyond Transparency.