Tiana Epps-Johnson is the Founder and Executive director of the Center for Technology and Civic Life. She is also a member of the Inauguration class of Obama Foundation Fellows.^[5]

Tiana holds an Master of Science in Politics and Communication from the London School of Economics and a BA in Political Science from Stanford University.^[1]

Prior to CTCL, she was the New Organizing Institute's Election Administration Director from 2012 to 2015.

She previously worked on the Voting Rights Project for the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights.

She is leading a team that is doing groundbreaking work to make US elections more inclusive and secure.^[3]

Tiana also works on the Ballot Information Project, an effort to collaborate across the civic engagement space to create an online, open source, and comprehensive data set of Ballot information tied to political geography. Both projects aim to create the infrastructure needed to build innovative tools that lower the barriers to access of critical voting information. In her free time, she enjoys cooking (usually in accordance with a predetermined theme).^[2]

As the founder and executive director at the Center for Technology and Civic Life, Tiana Epps-Johnson leads a team that provides resources and training to support local election officials in modernizing the ways they communicate with voters and administer elections. Her team also publishes free, open-source civic datasets that have been accessed over 200 million times through some of the most powerful tools that drive civic participation.^[4]

In 2015, Tiana joined the inaugural class of Technology and Democracy Fellows at the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at the John F. Kennedy School of Government. In 2018, she was selected to join the inaugural class of Obama Foundation Fellows.

Tiana is quite active on Linkedin^[9] Twitter,^[6] he has over 2000 followers on the platform.