Donald Scott is the host of US250&You, a podcast commemorating the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States.

Scott served in the United States Army for over 30 years. He entered military service as a Second Lieutenant in 1960 and retired as a Brigadier General in 1991. He served in the U.S., Okinawa, Vietnam and Germany managing up to 18,000 people at a time.

Scott served as Chief of Staff and Chief Operating Officer for the City of Atlanta, GA from 1991-1993, where he oversaw planning for the 1996 Summer Olympics and managed daily city operations. In that role, he relocated a large homeless population into housing with healthcare and job placement to clear space for a sports complex.

In 1993, he was appointed by President Bill Clinton as the founding director of AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corps (NCCC) in Washington, D.C. Scott recruited 1,400 high school and college graduates, selected, outfitted and staffed a headquarters and four regional campuses with each having over 350 corps members trained and outfitted to complete a 10-month commitment to complete community projects throughout the United States.

Most recently, Scott served as Chief Operating Officer and Deputy Librarian of the Library of Congress from 1996 to 2006. During his tenure, he established the Veterans History Project at the American Folk Life Center and ended the 20-year class action lawsuit against the Library over racial discrimination in the library’s hiring practices against African Americans; redesigned and implemented a library wide hiring model based on skills, knowledge and abilities; and transitioned library computer systems into the twenty-first century without loss of data or operational deficiency.

Scott received a Bachelor of Arts in Graphic Arts from Lincoln University, Missouri and a Master of Science in Counseling and Human Development from Troy State University, Montgomery, AL. He received an honorary Ph.D. from Lincoln University in 1991.