Kyla Fullenwider

Kyla Fullenwider

Kyla Fullenwider is the Entrepreneurship Fellow at the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics, and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. She is also a Visiting Professor of Social Innovation & Entrepreneurship at the American University of Rome. She previously served as the first Chief Innovation Officer of the U.S. Census Bureau, the principal agency of the U.S. Statistical System and part of the Department of Commerce.

She also served as a White House Presidential Innovation Fellow, part of a groundbreaking initiative to modernize the US federal government by bringing top executives, entrepreneurs, technologists, and other innovators to improve federal programs that serve more than 150 million Americans. While there she led design and innovation initiatives with a number of federal agencies including the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Department of Commerce, the Department of Agriculture, and the Millennium Challenge Corporation among others.

She was founding faculty in the Products of Design department at the School of Visual Arts and in the joint MBA/MA program at Johns Hopkins and the Maryland Institute of Art where she taught social design and entrepreneurship.