Will Sullivan is an Innovation Specialist for 18F, a team of digital experts building tech product, process and procurement best strategies for Federal agencies that was featured in the July cover story of Fast Company. He’s a mobile trends columnist for DigitalGov.gov and an advisor for the advisor for the YCombinator-backed web push platform, GoRoost.com, and Dean of the Washington DC chapter of the Awesome Foundation. He was previously the Director of Mobile for the Broadcasting Board of Governors where he oversaw the strategy, design and product development of mobile products in 60 languages for 91 news services in more than 200 countries with a weekly total audience of 215 million people around the world. Before that he was Director of Mobile News for Lee Enterprises, a Reynolds Journalism Institute Fellow at the University of Missouri studying mobile tech, Interactive Director of The St. Louis Post-Dispatch and a Board Member and Secretary for the Online News Association Board of Directors. His work has won recognition from organizations including the GSMA, Appy Awards, Online News Association, Society for News Design and National Press Photographer Association and he was selected by Editor and Publisher magazine as one of the “25 under 35” innovative young media leaders and by GovLoop as a "NextGen Innovator" for the 2015 NextGen Public Service Awards. Projects he created have twice been declared finalists for the Pulitzer Prize and twice been named to Editor and Publisher's annual list of "10 That Do It Right.”

Read more
View all

Photos of Will Sullivan

Testimonials

Nothing to show.