Michael Lawrence Evans is the Director of the Office of Emerging Technology at the City of Boston. He leads the City's exploration and adoption of new technology to support more responsive and equitable services. Previously, he directed Boston's Mayor's Office of New Urban Mechanics and led their civic technology portfolio. Michael cut his teeth as a design technologist at Stamen Design and Code for America, where he was a member of their inaugural class of fellows in 2011 and served as a Google Summer of Code mentor.