Crystal Peñalosa
Digital Product Lead - Data For The American Dream
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCrystal Peñalosa is a Digital Product Lead and interdisciplinary designer in the New York area with 11 years of experience blending civic technology, data-driven product work, and artistic practice. At the New Jersey Office of Innovation she leads Data for the American Dream, helping translate open data into actionable civic insights while mentoring and organizing within the civic tech community. Her background includes community engineering at Stae and hands-on web development and operations for the underground label Generations Unlimited, where she maintains creative archives and supports installations and exhibitions. Trained in urban planning (NYU) and environmental studies, she brings an urban systems lens to product design and public data, emphasizing authenticity, personal safety, and self-compassion practices. Notably, her art has turned city data into immersive experiences—such as a recreated NYC bike lane built from open and social data—demonstrating a rare mix of creative storytelling and technical data work. She is equally comfortable shipping web products, coordinating arts programming, and building electronics-informed music collaborations.
11 years of coding experience
B.A, Environmental Studies, B.A, Environmental Studies at San Francisco State UniversityMaster's degree, Urban Planning, Master's degree, Urban Planning at New York University
Github Skills (5)
ats6
crossword6
recoiljs4
jersey3
react3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
cpenalosa/staeGPS
Jan 2018 - Aug 2018
Contributions:152 pushes, 3 branches in 7 months
cpenalosa/staePark
Mar 2018 - Aug 2019
Contributions:14 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
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