Tiana Epps-Johnson is Founder and Chief Executive Officer of the Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL), which she co-founded in 2015. She is leading a team doing groundbreaking work to make US elections more inclusive and secure. Prior to CTCL, Tiana 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. Tiana was a 2022 University of Chicago Center for Effective Government Senior Practitioner Fellow, an 2021 Audacious Project grantee, a 2021 Emerson Collective Dial Fellow, 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.
Center for Tech and Civic Life’s (CTCL) mission is to catalyze excellent election administration across every jurisdiction in the U.S. They make sure that all eligible voters, regardless of zip code, can participate and engage in the democratic process confidently and without friction, election after election. They create meaningful impact at scale through election department support, field building, and generating actionable insights. CTCL’s day-to-day work includes:
