Enabling Positive Change Through Data with Marcia Drake

Overview

Marcia Drake is the Deputy of Data Acquisition and Data Management at the State of Washington Health Care Authority and has over 20 years experiences working in a variety of public service roles. 

In today’s episode, Marcia Drake shares her inspirational story of how she turned her weaknesses into her strengths, how she takes a purpose driven approach to data projects, and her thoughts on how women can drive change in the metaverserve.

About Marcia Drake

Marcia Drake has a passion for helping others to turn data into actionable results to make a difference in the world.  With 24 years of data and IT experience in state, federal and private agencies, her data journey has involved saving lives, reducing collisions, studying social behavior patterns, solving crimes, improving systems, increasing data quality, evaluating systems, and local, state, federal and tribal committee work. She is a former chair of the USDOT NCSA NHTSA Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) National Information Technology Advisory Panel, and has served as a grant peer reviewer on numerous grants for the United States Department of Justice.

Marcia has worked with traffic safety and transportation data, health data, court data, law enforcement and crime data, GIS, and other social science data. She is a trained anthropologist, crime, traffic and intelligence analyst who served with both the Washington State Patrol and Pinkerton Consulting and Investigations at Microsoft Global Security- Microsoft Headquarters. Later, she spent several years working for the Washington State Courts as the Data Quality Coordinator. Marcia is currently the Deputy of Data Acquisition and Data Management at the Washington State Health Care Authority.

Marcia has received numerous awards throughout her career, including from the United States Department of Transportation (USDOT), National Center for Statistical Analysis (NCSA), National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), the Washington Traffic Safety Commission, and the Washington State Patrol.

Additionally, Marcia is trained in Feminine Power Transformational Leadership, life and business coaching, and Impact Economics.  She has an interest in sustainability and solving problems at the global level and is a certified blockchain enterprise professional.

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