Bio.

Merici currently serves as Senior Advisor for Digital Delivery to former IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel. Merici was Direct File's Deputy, sitting across all aspects of launching the new tax filing service to the American public in 2024. Prior to Direct File, Merici was the Child Tax Credit Implementation Lead for the US Digital Service. USDS is a team of digital pros based out of the White House and deployed to implementation, digital, and modernization projects across the federal government.

Merici was one of the first employees at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and set up the digital team. She strongly steered the strategy towards one of openness from the get go, building the agency on foundations of open source, open data and transparency. Their trailblazing vision set the standard for modern web services in the federal government. 

Merici is also the Co-Founder and former CEO of Ada’s List. Ada’s List was sold in 2022 and Merici successfully exited.

Merici has extensive consulting experience; she served as a Client Engagement Lead at IDEO’s software platform and worked with global organisations (HP, Harvard, DB, and more) to help them become more innovation- and design-led. Additionally, she worked at Accenture/Fjord as a Director and led client transformation projects across design and technology. Merici helped clients transition from paper-based, siloed organisations through to identifying and launching new digital services based on user research.