Joycelyn Tate, SAIS '05 (Cert), is a leading expert on digital equity with a record of developing digital equity advocacy strategies to advance racial and gender equity, civil rights, and social justice in the use of, access to, and ownership of technology. As the founder and CEO of TS Strategies, Joycelyn advises senior executives of organizations on digital equity policy issues and executes public policy advocacy strategies to advance digital equity. She is also the co-founder of Make Innovative Technology for Change (MakeIT4Change) Innovation Hub, a nonprofit organization that empowers youth and adults to create technology for social change.Joycelyn’s public service includes appointments to serve on the Communications Equity and Diversity Council at the Federal Communications Commission and as a board member of the Universal Service Administrative Company, where she managed the administration of the Universal Service Fund, a $10 billion dollar fund that provides access to affordable telecommunications and broadband services to rural, remote, and underserved communities across the country. She also served as a member of the U.S. delegation to the United Nation’s World Conference on International Telecommunications.Joycelyn earned a Bachelor of Arts from Howard University, a Juris Doctor from Columbus School of Law at The Catholic University of America, a graduate certificate of specialization from the Law and Technology Institute at the Columbus School of Law, and a graduate certificate in international studies from the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University.

Scott Shane, a former fellow of the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins, was a reporter for 40 years, the last 15 at The New York Times, where he covered national security and shared two Pulitzer Prizes with colleagues. He is the author of three books, most recently FLEE NORTH: A Forgotten Hero and the Fight for Freedom in Slavery's Borderland, about the underground railroad and the domestic slave trade in Washington and Baltimore. He has written and spoken about technology and disinformation.