[caption id="attachment_3156" align="aligncenter" width="640"] Jake Brewer speaking at PDF 2014[/caption]The civic tech community and our Civic Hall/Personal Democracy family lost one of its giants yesterday. Jake Brewer was killed while on a charity bike ride outside of Washington, DC. He was 34 and leaves a spouse, Mary Katharine Ham, a two-year-old daughter, Georgia, and a child on the way. Jake had just stepped into "the job of a lifetime" as senior technology advisor at the White House. Before that he was the head of global policy, external affairs and new product development for Change.org for two years. Prior to that he was a partner at the new media firm Fission Strategy and the strategic communications director for U.S. Ignite, and in...