Joycelyn Tate

Joycelyn Tate is a policy advocate for civil, gender, and racial rights for technology users and consumers. She is the senior policy advisor to the Black Women's Roundtable, where she advocates for racial and gender rights issues that are central to live of Black women and girls. Joycelyn is the co-founder of Make IT For Change Innovation Hub, an organization that provides creative space and resources for youth and adults to work together to develop technology for social change. She is also a delegate to the Vision 2020 National Women's Equality Initiative.

Joycelyn was the co-founder of a tech start-up and chief operating officer at Multisoft Technologies Services, an IT training and network installation company. She served in the offices of two U.S. Representatives where her portfolio of legislative issues included telecommunications and technology, foreign affairs, women's, and children issues.

At the Federal Communications Commission, Joycelyn served in the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau where she worked on regulations for the wireless telecommunications industry and conducted research and analysis on the problems experienced by small, women and minority-owned businesses trying to obtain capital financing. She is the former director of telecommunications and broadband policy at the Multicultural Media, Telecom and Internet Council and adjunct professor of communications law at Howard University School of Communications and Bowie State University.

Joycelyn serves as a board member of the Tech for All Alliance, where she facilitates policy advocacy, strategies, and collaborative initiatives to advance a more diverse tech ecosystem throughout the nation. She has previously served as a member of the International Telecommunications Advisory Committee at the U.S. Department of State, a member of the U.S. delegation to the 2012 World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT) held by the International Telecommunications Union (an agency of the United Nations), and she was appointed to serve on the board of directors of the Universal Service Administrative Company where she was responsible for administering the over $9 billion Universal Service Fund, which provides access to affordable telecommunications services throughout the United States.

Joycelyn earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Howard University, a Juris Doctor from Columbus School of Law at The Catholic University of America, a certificate of specialization from the Law and Technology Institute at the Columbus School of Law, and a graduate certificate in international studies with regional study on China from the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University.

Sub-specialties: Racial & gender rights for technology users & consumers, diversity & inclusion the tech sector