In 2009, the founder Jennifer Pahlka 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, "a one-year fellowship recruiting developers to work for city government".
In 2009, the founder Jennifer Pahlka 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, "a one-year fellowship recruiting developers to work for city government".