Nathan Storey

Director of Data Governance

Brooklyn, NY https://nathanstorey.com LinkedIn: npstorey GitHub: npstorey

Data and policy leader with 10+ years in NYC government, specializing in cross-agency data integration, responsible AI adoption, and digital service delivery. At the Department of Homeless Services, directed cross-system data integration and racial equity analysis that secured 700-800 supportive housing placements. Now leading data governance and AI enablement across city agencies at OTI's Office of Data Analytics. Independently building open-source civic AI infrastructure through Civic AI Tools.

Experience

NYC Office of Technology & Innovation (OTI) - Office of Data & Analytics (ODA)

Feb 2024 - Present

Director of Data Governance

Delivered NYC Agency and Governance Organizations (303 entities), the City's first open, standardized agency reference, democratizing access to government structure by consolidating 8 fragmented lists into a public resource now powering the NYC.gov Agency Directory.
Co-led MetaCat development: internal metadata catalog improving discoverability and usability of non-public datasets, with 325+ data assets from 21 agencies.
Trained 400+ city staff across 15 agencies on WorkerConnect, NYC's cross-agency data-sharing platform enabling caseworkers to better serve vulnerable New Yorkers.
Delivered 4 presentations on responsible AI use for government data through the Open Data Ambassador program.
Drove data standards working groups including the Data Asset Working Group; created internal collaboration website (nycdata.nycnet) consolidating 35 resources for the initiative.

NYC Department of Homeless Services

Jan 2018 - Feb 2024

Executive Director of Data & Analytics; Founding Director, Street Homeless Solutions Lab

Founded Street Homeless Solutions Lab, a 3-person product and service design team; secured funding and executive sponsorship to center user needs in technology decisions.
Designed and implemented participatory policy co-creation using Polis and vTaiwan-inspired methods, engaging 300 frontline and executive staff across 17 programs in consensus-driven practice redesign - among the first vTaiwan-inspired processes in U.S. city government.
Directed cross-system data integration for street homeless clients, including racial equity analysis exposing disparities in placements; produced evidence that secured 700-800 additional supportive housing units.

Independent Projects

Civic AI Tools

Mar 2026 - Present

https://civicaitools.org

Founder — open-source platform connecting AI assistants to 559+ government open data portals via Model Context Protocol (MCP).

Earlier Experience

NYC Mayor's Office of Operations

Jan 2016 - Jan 2018

Senior Project Specialist

Product lead for StreetSmart and HOME-STAT dashboards; embedded user-centered design into Homeless Services IT.

IDNYC (Human Resources Administration)

Jan 2015 - Jan 2016

Data Analyst

Designed executive reporting for Human Resources Administration, the Mayor's Office, and City Council.

Ontodia

Jan 2013 - Jan 2014

Product Manager

Designed UX for NYCpedia and CivicDashboards; developed geospatial databases.

Skills

Expertise

Data Governance & Strategy, Open Data, Open Government, Digital Service Delivery, AI Literacy & Integration, Interagency Coordination, Metadata Catalogs, Data Sharing Agreements, Data Privacy

Leadership

Program Management, Policy Analysis, Human-Centered Design, Change Management, Training & Capacity Building, Stakeholder Engagement

Tools

Python (pandas), SQL, QGIS/ArcGIS, Socrata Open Data (SODA API), OpenAI / Anthropic APIs, Git/GitHub (GitHub Actions), HTML/CSS/JS, Airtable

Education

Hunter College (CUNY)

M.U.P. - Urban Planning (May 2013)

Wayne State University

B.A. - Media Arts & Studies (Jun 2006)

NYU Tisch School of the Arts

Film & TV (Jan 2000 - Jan 2003)

Selected Talks & Civic Engagement

Data Docs: Open Data on Screen - Curator and host, NYC Open Data Week at DCTV's Firehouse Cinema (2025)

Civic AI Tools: Connecting LLMs to Open Data via MCP - School of Data conference (2025)

NYC Agency and Governance Organizations Lunch and Learn - MTA Data Team (2025)

Using ChatGPT to Explore NYC Open Data - School of Data conference (2024)

Open Data Ambassador presentation - Brooklyn Borough President staff (2022)

NYC Street Homeless Solutions Policy Co-Creation - Participedia case study (2019)

vTaiwan Open Consultation & Participation Officers Training - Co-organizer (2018)

Fearless Cities North America conference - Panel moderator and steering committee (2018)

Co-created the original curriculum for the Open Data Ambassadors program with BetaNYC