Full Name
Dominique Harrison
Position Title
Tech Equity Expert
Organization/Affiliation (full name)
WizDome Consulting
Speaker Bio
Dr. Dominique Harrison is a mission-oriented public policy executive focusing on racial equity and innovation, with particular emphasis on bringing fairness and inclusion in finance and technology to underserved populations. Dr. Harrison recently worked as Director of the Racial Equity Design and Data Initiative (REDDI) at Citibank, where she advanced responsible innovation, financial inclusion & racial equity across Citi’s products and services on behalf of unserved and underserved communities to drive innovation, customer experience, and growth.
Prior to Citi, Dr. Harrison was the Director of Technology Policy at the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, where she built, scaled, and led the Center's Technology Policy Program on key tech policy issues affecting Black communities. She is the author of Affordability & Availability: Expanding Broadband in the Black Rural South, a report that details the potential for broadband to increase economic, educational, and healthcare opportunities in the Black Rural South.
Before joining the Joint Center, Dr. Harrison served as Project Director of the Aspen Digital Program at the Aspen Institute, where she conceived, developed, and led projects at the intersection of equity, technology, and public policy. While at the Institute, Dr. Harrison created the Diversity and Technology Action (D.A.T.A.) Initiative, a multi-pronged effort to rebuild the tech ecosystem to address the challenges of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). Her leadership led to a cross-industry partnership that published the Action to Catalyze Tech: A Paradigm Shift for DEI report. Dr. Harrison has also worked at the United Nations Development Program Washington, D.C. office and Internews. Her previous academic appointments include faculty and instructor positions at Howard University, the University of Texas at Austin, and Trinity Washington University.
In addition to her work at Citi, Dominique serves as a member of the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC's) Communications Equity and Diversity Council (CEDC) and chairs the Digital Empowerment and Inclusion Working Group. She is a member of the Program Committee of the Research Conference on Communications, Information, and Internet Policy (TPRC), the Rock Health Summit Innovation Council, and a community panelist for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA's) Transform to Open Science (TOPS) and Year of Open Science initiatives.
Dr. Harrison earned a B.S. in Advertising from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, an M.A. in Media Studies from the University of Texas at Austin, and a Ph.D. in Technology, Policy and Society from Howard University. Her scholarship focuses on race, multistakeholder governance, and communications policy, and has been featured on NPR, CSPAN, NBC News, Roll Call, and The Hechinger Report. Dominique is the proud child of Jamaican immigrants and can be found globetrotting at a moment's notice.
Prior to Citi, Dr. Harrison was the Director of Technology Policy at the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, where she built, scaled, and led the Center's Technology Policy Program on key tech policy issues affecting Black communities. She is the author of Affordability & Availability: Expanding Broadband in the Black Rural South, a report that details the potential for broadband to increase economic, educational, and healthcare opportunities in the Black Rural South.
Before joining the Joint Center, Dr. Harrison served as Project Director of the Aspen Digital Program at the Aspen Institute, where she conceived, developed, and led projects at the intersection of equity, technology, and public policy. While at the Institute, Dr. Harrison created the Diversity and Technology Action (D.A.T.A.) Initiative, a multi-pronged effort to rebuild the tech ecosystem to address the challenges of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). Her leadership led to a cross-industry partnership that published the Action to Catalyze Tech: A Paradigm Shift for DEI report. Dr. Harrison has also worked at the United Nations Development Program Washington, D.C. office and Internews. Her previous academic appointments include faculty and instructor positions at Howard University, the University of Texas at Austin, and Trinity Washington University.
In addition to her work at Citi, Dominique serves as a member of the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC's) Communications Equity and Diversity Council (CEDC) and chairs the Digital Empowerment and Inclusion Working Group. She is a member of the Program Committee of the Research Conference on Communications, Information, and Internet Policy (TPRC), the Rock Health Summit Innovation Council, and a community panelist for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA's) Transform to Open Science (TOPS) and Year of Open Science initiatives.
Dr. Harrison earned a B.S. in Advertising from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, an M.A. in Media Studies from the University of Texas at Austin, and a Ph.D. in Technology, Policy and Society from Howard University. Her scholarship focuses on race, multistakeholder governance, and communications policy, and has been featured on NPR, CSPAN, NBC News, Roll Call, and The Hechinger Report. Dominique is the proud child of Jamaican immigrants and can be found globetrotting at a moment's notice.
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