Five years after being named director of digital experience enhancement for residents, businesses, and visitors, one of California’s most important local government technologists is stepping down.

In a tweet on Monday night, Carrie Bishop, who was named San Francisco’s first chief digital services officer nearly five years ago, announced her resignation.

“After five exciting years with the city and district of SF as the first Chief Digital Services Officer, I will move on in March. It’s been a roller coaster ride and I’m so proud of what the team has achieved. Stay tuned because they’re just getting started, ”Bishop said on Twitter. Her last day in San Francisco will be March 4th, Techwire emailed us

“There are few teams with such talent, and we achieved some important things – during COVID-19, we led the city’s digital response, helping thousands of people book tests, get vaccinated, and get critical information “Said Bishop, noting the team enabled more than 2,500 companies to get the grants and permits they needed to keep their doors open during the pandemic. She said she has “something planned for the summer that I will share publicly in due course,” but she will be “taking a few months off to recover from a few hectic years!”

Bishop’s public sector career began in the London City Council in the Borough of Barnet and continued as the founder of FutureGov, which has developed solutions to help UK local governments improve online services. Government Digital Service was one of their UK clients. As a panelist at events like the California Public Sector CIO Academy 2020, her comments on govtech have appeared in Techwire. San Francisco announced her appointment on February 17, 2017 and the creation of the position – Bishop’s first US position – as “Part of San Francisco’s Recently Adopted Digital Services Strategy,” added: “Ms. Bishop’s focus will be on improving the experience of San Francisco residents, businesses and visitors when they access the city council for information and services. “

Her friends and former colleagues offered congratulations on social media. “A great and impressive run! You have built a great team in SF. Look forward to seeing what you do next, ”said Michael Wilkening, senior advisor on technology and deployment to the US Department of Health ¯ and former special advisor to Governor Gavin Newsom on innovation and digital services ¯ on Twitter. “Thank you for all of your contributions, not just for SF but for the movement,” tweeted Luke Norris, vice president of platform strategy and digital transformation at Granicus and former senior vice president of government relations and growth at OpenCities.

“Impressive !!! This is news. I’m really excited to hear where we’re headed and what the team has in store,” said Angelica “Angie” Quirarte, federal director of partnerships for the Tech Talent Project and former assistant program director for the California office for digital innovation, on Twitter. The two met in 2019, she told Techwire, just before Quirarte – then assistant secretary for digital engagement for the California Government Operations Agency – and her group in the state began work on the Alpha project.

“I think that as a leader in this area you have to learn to say no, and she’s been really good at focusing the team on projects that are reinventing services,” Quirarte said. She brought her colleagues to meet Bishop’s team, she said, “and they were able to provide coaching and advice on their experience creating and leading a digital services team in the context of a city government.” Named after alpha.ca.gov, the initiative focused on redesigning the state’s website. Quirarte stayed in contact with Bishop to offer support and to have a sounding board on Alpha, but also on government work on permits and cannabis licenses.

“It was great to build a relationship with Carrie and her team and cheer each other on while we worked on our projects,” she added.

Theo Douglas is Deputy Editor-in-Chief at Techwire.net and prior to that at Government Technology. His reporting experience includes reporting on local, county, and state governments, business, and breaking news. He holds a BA in Newspaper Journalism and a Masters in History, both from California State University at Long Beach.

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San Francisco pastor Megan Rohrer was the first openly transgender person to be appointed bishop of a major Christian denomination in the United States last weekend.

Rohrer was elected bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the American Sierra Pacific Synod based in Sacramento on Saturday. Rohrer’s installation is scheduled for September 11th at St. Matthew Lutheran Church in Walnut Creek, according to an ELCA press release.

The past few days since the election have been a joyous “whirlwind of the Holy Spirit,” said Rohrer, who is currently pastor of Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church in the Parkside neighborhood of San Francisco. Rohrer, who uses the pronouns “she” and “she,” is also the ward chaplain coordinator for the San Francisco Police Department.

“In order for me to be able to take on this role as bishop, many people had to take hurdles from my journey of faith,” said Rohrer about the challenges that they faced as transgender in the religious community.

“So my hope is to be the kind of leader who will help remove all the hurdles that lie ahead of others, and especially uplift pastors of color [and] Communities that care for vulnerable people, ”they said.

We are all proud of our colleague, the elected Bishop Megan Rohrer, who made history as the first openly transgender person to be elevated to the role of bishop by a major Christian denomination in the USA. Congratulations, Rev. @mmrohrer! Keep doing great things! https://t.co/tDSuRyrQPc

– San Francisco Police Department (@SFPD) May 11, 2021

Rev. Elizabeth A. Eaton, ELCA presiding bishop, described Rohrer’s election as “historic”.

“When we say everyone is welcome, we mean everyone is welcome and we believe that God creates humanity in diversity. The Spirit gives gifts to each of us for building up the body of Christ. The Sierra Pacific Synod recognized the gifts of Rev. Dr. Megan Rohrer and elected her bishop, “Eaton said in a statement on Tuesday.

Rodrigo Heng-Lehtinen, assistant executive director of the National Center for Transgender Equality in Washington, said Rohrer’s election was “groundbreaking” and inspiring for transgender co-religionists who are often rejected by their communities.

“Rev. Rohrer’s election shows that progress is possible. It affirms that the more Americans get to know their transgender neighbors on a day-to-day basis, the more they learn that we share many of the same dreams and values, “he said in a statement.

Rohrer was the first transgender person to be ordained in the ELCA in 2006 as part of the Extraordinary Candidacy Project – now known as Extraordinary Lutheran Ministries – when the denomination did not allow LGBTQ pastors to serve openly. Her ordination was accepted in 2010 after the ELCA guidelines changed.

The denomination today has almost 3.3 million members. The Rohrer Synod encompasses nearly 200 congregations in central and northern California and northern Nevada.

Rohrer was born in Sioux Falls, SD and went to Berkeley in 2002 to attend Pacific Lutheran theological seminary and the Pacific School of Religion. Rohrer credits Augustana University, an ELCA college, for welcoming them before ELCA policies changed, “so I can even go to seminary,” Rohrer said.

Rohrer was a San Francisco community attorney who worked with the city’s homeless LGBT youth and raised awareness of violence against colored transgender women. Rohrer said they were one of many pastors arrested in protest against Proposition 8, a California election initiative to ban same-sex marriage, which was approved in 2008 but later overturned in court.

“You have always been an inspiration and comrade in the movement to end homelessness, and I am thrilled to have your new leadership as bishop,” said Sam Dodge, former assistant director of the San Francisco Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing Twitter.

Rohrer said they felt “amazingly supported” by the diverse faith community in San Francisco, including the Jewish and Muslim communities.

As a bishop, Rohrer hopes to make the churches more diverse and “more accessible to neighbors than ever before” as the pandemic subsides.

“I hope that anyone who is confused about whether or not a trans person can be a bishop will use that confusion to notice all the other wonderful things God is up to and then pray with us,” said Rohrer. “Because we would like to have you.”

Rohrer takes up his new position as bishop on July 1st.

Jessica Flores is a contributor to the San Francisco Chronicle. Email: jessica.flores@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @jesssmflores

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