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Jason's civic life runs on two tracks that rarely appear in the same sentence: federal government technology under the Obama administration and local democratic organizing in suburban Massachusetts. The Presidential Innovation Fellowship gave him a front-row seat to the specific difficulty of changing institutions from the inside — and left him with a theory of change rooted in networks and people rather than programs and products. His father Anping's Newton School Committee campaign, meanwhile, demonstrated what civic engagement actually looks like at the scale where it can still be won door …

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