Marcela Escobar-Alava
Federal Leadership
Since joining the Social Security Administration last March, Marcela Escobar-Alava has wasted no time in playing a pivotal role in an accelerated digital transformation, immediately embarking on a listening tour to help formulate a modernization strategy for an agency gung ho on ditching its paper-based past. The former White House deputy director of technology told FedScoop in an interview this year that there has been plenty of work to do in stripping out elements of legacy tools and establishing target architecture. “Now we need to start connecting the dots with what is really driving the business measures and some of the results,” she said.
