Joycelyn Tate is the CEO of Tate Strategies where she provides advice and advocacy strategies to organizations on telecom, tech, and broadband policy issues. She is a policy expert and strategist focused on the intersectionality of civil rights, and racial and gender equity in the use of and access to technology. She is the senior policy advisor at the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation and the Black Women’s Roundtable. Joycelyn is the co-founder of Make Information Technology for Change Innovation Hub (MakeIT4Change Innovation Hub), an organization that empowers youth and adults to create technology for social change.
Previously, Joycelyn served in offices of two U.S. Members of Congress where her portfolio of policy issues included telecommunications and technology, foreign affairs, and healthcare. She served on the Board of Directors of the Universal Service Administrative Company, where she managed the administration of the Universal Service Fund that provides access to affordable telecommunications services throughout the United States. Joycelyn also served as a member of the United States delegation to the World Conference on International Telecommunications where she advised on treaty proposals negotiated on behalf of the United States, and she was the Director of Broadband and Telecommunications Policy at the Minority Media Telecom and Internet Council.
Joycelyn earned a B.A. from Howard University, a J.D. 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.
