#  Claire Benjamin 

Service Innovation Fellow

 

 

 



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Claire Benjamin (she/her) is a human-centered designer and user experience researcher dedicated to designing impactful and sustainable government services grounded in deep understanding of people. In her current role as Service Innovation Fellow with the City of Boulder, she works to strengthen the city's capacity to diagnose service delivery challenges, integrate community insight into service improvements, and test scalable data- and AI-enabled solutions. Claire brings deep expertise in partnering with government agencies and social impact-focused organizations to make sense of complex challenges and build equitable and meaningful solutions across services such as hospital operations, city permitting, and elections data and voter information.

Claire holds a master’s in mechanical engineering through the Graduate Design Program at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and a bachelor’s in mechanical engineering from Vanderbilt University. Outside of the office, you can find Claire trail running, listening to live music, or absorbed in a book with coffee in hand.