Tiana Epps-Johnson is Founder and Executive Director with the Center for Tech and Civic Life.
She leads a team that is doing groundbreaking work to make US elections more inclusive and secure.
Tiana is a 2020 Emerson Collective Dial Fellow, 2021 Senior Practitioner Fellow at UChicago Center for Effective Government , a recipient of the 2020 Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship, and was selected to join the inaugural cohorts of Obama Foundation Fellows (2018) and Harvard Ash Center Technology and Democracy Fellows (2015).
Tiana earned a MSc in Politics and Communication from the London School of Economics and a BA in Political Science from Stanford University.
Tiana Epps-Johnson speaks at TED2022: A New Era. April 11, 2022. Photo: Stacie McChesney/TED.
“The overall health of our democracy – whether we have a voting process that’s fair and trustworthy – is more important than any one election outcome.
And yet, money and resources flow as if the opposite were true.”
Stanford students react following President Barack Obama's speech on disinformation, where he was introduced by Stanford alum and 2018 Obama Foundation Fellow, Tiana Epps-Johnson.
Stanford University. April 21, 2022.
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