Lynn Overmann is the executive director at the Beeck Center for Social Impact + Innovation at Georgetown University. Lynn graduated from the NYU School of Law and received her Bachelor of Arts from Bryn Mawr College. A career spanning policy, data, and delivery has prepared her as a leader intent on maximizing social impact. 

Lynn’s extensive delivery experience includes serving as a senior advisor for delivery with the U.S. Digital Service, embedded in the Domestic Policy Council. There, she advised then Ambassador Susan Rice on priority policy implementation. In this role, Lynn oversaw teams of digital service experts across diverse projects, including targeted efforts to make the asylum system more effective and humane, increasing access to federal funding for low-capacity communities, and improving the delivery of safety net benefits. Lynn also served as a senior advisor for delivery at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, where she led the department’s work to leverage data and human-centered design to advance equity, streamline critical funding programs, and improve insights into rural economies. 

The strategic use of data to improve people’s daily lives has been a constant driver throughout Lynn’s career. She has served as a senior data strategist at Opportunity Insights, a Harvard University-based research and policy institute that leverages big data to improve economic mobility. She also held several senior policy positions at the U.S. Department of Justice, where she helped establish the Access to Justice office, and served as deputy chief data officer in the U.S. Department of Commerce. Lynn also founded the Data-Driven Justice Initiative while working as senior policy advisor to the U.S. Chief Technology Officer in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy during the Obama administration. In December 2024, Lynn’s ability to use technology to transform outdated systems was highlighted in her testimony before the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs Subcommittee on Technology Modernization. 

Lynn’s innovative use of data and digital delivery as a tools for justice reflects a career dedicated to advancing this mission. She served as a vice president of criminal justice and head of the D.C. office at Arnold Ventures, where she led a team that developed and executed a multimillion-dollar grant portfolio focused on leveraging data and technology to reduce low-level arrests in police departments across the country. Before this, Lynn was a civil rights and criminal defense attorney in Miami, Florida, spending the first five years of her career as a public defender, litigating dozens of cases to jury trials and successfully challenging unconstitutional practices in police departments and jails.