In 2009, Jennifer Pahlka (born in 1969, founder and former Executive Director of Code for America)  had a conversation with Andrew Greenhill, (the Mayor's Chief of Staff of the City of Tucson) in that conversation sparked the initial idea for Code for America, and the two began discussing plans for a program that eventually became Code for America.
Jennifer Pahlka (born 1969) is the founder and former Executive Director of Code for America. A conversation with Andrew Greenhill, the Mayor's Chief of Staff of the City of Tucson, sparked the initial idea for Code for America, when he said "You need to pay attention to the local level, because cities are in major crisis. In 2009, the founder Jennifer Pahlka was working with O'Reilly Media at the Gov 2.0 Summit in Washington, DC. The two began discussing plans for a program that eventually became Code for America, "a one-year fellowship recruiting developers to work for city government". 
