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TheBridge profile: Wendy Martinez

Name: Wendy Martinez

Current city: Washington, DC

Current job: Chief of Staff, FiscalNote

Past job: Partnership Specialist, Inter-American Development Bank

Q. Favorite spot for a coffee meeting? Swings Coffee near Metro Center or Bourbon Coffee on the Hill

Q. Describe one skill you learned in a previous job that helped you in your current job. Being adaptable and identifying solutions to address challenges despite the circumstances. In my previous role, I negotiated high level partnerships and knew from the beginning that creating a "win-win" required being flexible, willingness to compromise, and being able to moving forward with the information at hand. When you work at a start-up, ambiguity is king and being able to adapt to the unknown, while positively contributing to the organization, is key for success. In my role, not one day is the same, and I need to be flexible enough each day to successfully navigate what's ahead, while still achieving my goals.

Q. Job advice in three words? Focus on solutions

Q. How are you (or your company, org, nonprofit) currently bridging the gap between politics and tech? FiscalNote is a technology solution that is helping connect the world to its governments. We are revolutionizing the way organizations manage issues and interactions with all levels of government.

Q. Best advice you've received? Pay close attention to why a person is saying something. Often times, we focus on the tone and message of what is being said, but fail to understand the motivation behind a person's statement. Once you figure this out, the outcome of the discussion will be different. 

Q. Most underrated virtue in an employee? Empathy

Q. Startup to watch? Shameless plug: FiscalNote.

Q. How do you unwind afterwork? I'm a runner and also love H.I.I.T workouts. After work, you'll either find me running around the city or at my local (and favorite) studio in DC working up a sweat. 

https://www.thebridgework.com/people/wendy-martinez

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Re: FiscalNote’s Wendy Martinez Killed in Logan Circle Stabbing
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FiscalNote is a privately held software, data, and media company headquartered in Washington DC. The company was founded by Timothy Hwang in 2013, with the help of Gerald Yao and Jonathan Chen.[5].

FiscalNote provides software tools and platforms, data services, and news to companies and organizations through the FiscalNote Government Relationship Management (GRM) service, its core revenue-generating product[6][3][7][8].

According to Entrepreneur Magazine, the GRM “aggregates legislation, regulations and government filings from thousands of federal, state and local agencies, uses artificial intelligence to structure it and normalize it, and delivers personalized data feeds to companies to show how government may be impacting their businesses.”

It is primarily used by Congressional offices, law firms, trade associations, lobbyists, corporations, embassies, federal contractors, and public affairs professionals. [9]. It now covers over 40 countries around the world and hopes to reach all 200 by 2019.[2]

FiscalNote is also the owner of media companies Congressional Quarterly and Roll Call, which it acquired from The Economist Group in 2018[10][11].

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FiscalNote

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• Wendy Martinez of Northwest DC was attacked Tuesday evening while jogging.

• She had just gotten engaged a week earlier, her family said. She was chief of staff at a software and data company.

• Police released surveillance video Wednesday afternoon showing the suspect walking along 11th Street NW.

[Notthereyet]

She practically told the killer where to find her. I find it appalling how much information people reveal on sites. Sigh. HOPE THEY NAIL THE KILLER TO THE WALL.

[Nifster]

Name of suspect?

[Sans-Culotte]

Another young woman killed while jogging at night. It’s ironic that she (and the one killed in Iowa) were doing something that ostensibly was to help them stay healthy. Engaging in that activity cost them their lives. They would have done better to stay home and smoke a pack of cigarettes.

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[RightGeek]

"I scared. I don’t know what happened, and I just try to call police," said the manager, who asked not to be identified.

I illegal alien?

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“We Were Planning a Wedding, Now We’re Planning a Funeral”

—Family member

[The Toll]

Can someone PLEASE explain to white women that this is not the kind of country where it is safe for them to run around in public?

The Democrat Party (who exist off the votes of white women) has made this the case!

[lgjhn23]

Yet, LEOs are told they can’t profile them.
Yet, we are told not to view them as violent.
Yet, we are racist if we say anything negative about them.
It’s time to end this politically correct BS and bring back public hangings of these feral SOBs.
And those that don’t like can pack up their crap and move to Zimbabwe where I’m sure they’ll get a heartfelt welcome.