At the Center for Tech and Civic Life, Tiana Epps-Johnson works to make the US election system more modern, inclusive and secure.

Why you should listen

Tiana Epps-Johnson is founder and executive director of the Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL), where she leads a team using technology to modernize the voting experience in the US. Prior to CTCL, she spent three years as the election administration director at the New Organizing Institute. She previously worked on the Voting Rights Project for the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights.A 2021 Emerson Collective Dial Fellow and a recipient of the 2020 Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship, Epps-Johnson was part of the inaugural cohort of Obama Foundation Fellows in 2018. She was also a Technology and Democracy fellow at the Harvard Ash Center in 2015.

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