Tiana Epps-Johnson is founder and executive director of the Center for Tech and Civic Life. She is leading a team that is doing groundbreaking work to make US elections more inclusive and secure. Prior to CTCL, she was the New Organizing Institute’s election administration director from 2012 to 2015. She also previously worked on the Voting Rights Project for the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights. Epps-Johnson is a 2022 University of Chicago Center for Effective Government senior practitioner fellow, a 2021 Emerson Collective Dial fellow, and a recipient of the 2020 Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship, and she was selected to join the inaugural cohorts of Obama Foundation fellows (2018) and Harvard Ash Center Technology and Democracy fellows (2015). Epps-Johnson earned a master’s of science in politics and communication from the London School of Economics and a bachelor’s degree in political science from Stanford University.