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Hello, I'm Dominique Harrison

Hello, I'm Dominique HarrisonHello, I'm Dominique HarrisonHello, I'm Dominique Harrison

a public policy executive 

+ social scientist

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Hello, I'm Dominique Harrison

Hello, I'm Dominique HarrisonHello, I'm Dominique HarrisonHello, I'm Dominique Harrison

a public policy executive 

+ social scientist

Contact Me

What I Do

I build bridges across the tech industry, government, and civil society to solve societal challenges and scale impact, linking research to policy and practice.


As an executive and social scientist, I focus my expertise and my mission on developing strategies for high-visibility initiatives and pubic policy to advance responsible technology design and deployment that delivers impactful results, especially among underserved populations. I have over 10 years of experience advancing responsible innovation in financial services, telecommunications, and technology. 

Building a more Fair, Equitable, Tech-Just World

Biography

Dr. Dominique Harrison is a mission-oriented public policy executive and expert on responsible innovation in finance, technology, and telecommunications. Currently, she serves as the Director of the Office of Minority Broadband Initiatives (OMBI) at the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) within the Department of Commerce. At OMBI, she leads a federally funded grant-making office that engages Historically Black Colleges & Universities (HBCU), Tribal Colleges & Universities (TCU) and Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI), along with their surrounding communities, to promote economic growth, expand high-speed internet connectivity and digital opportunities. She also co-leads the Office of Internet Connectivity & Growth's (OICG) Program Evaluation activities to assess the effectiveness, efficiency, and impact of NTIA broadband investments.


Before joining OMBI, Dr. Harrison held the position of Director of the Racial Equity Design and Data Initiative (REDDI) at Citibank. In this role, she championed responsible innovation, financial inclusion, and racial equity across Citi’s products and services. Prior to her tenure at Citi, she served as the Director of Technology Policy at the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, where she established and led the Center’s Technology Policy Program. Her work focused on the impact of platform accountability, broadband access, and privacy and algorithmic fairness on Black communities.


Dr. Harrison’s career also includes roles as the Project Director of the Aspen Digital Program at the Aspen Institute, where she developed and led initiatives at the intersection of equity, technology, and public policy. Additionally, she has held academic positions at Howard University, the University of Texas at Austin, and Trinity Washington University.


An active member of the tech policy community, Dr. Harrison serves on the Program Committee of the Research Conference on Communications, Information, and Internet Policy (TPRC), and the Rock Health Innovation Council. She was a community panelist for NASA’s Transform to Open Science (TOPS) and Year of Open Science initiatives, an advisory council member of the Center for Democracy & Technology, and a member Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC’s) Communications Equity and Diversity Council (CEDC), where she chaired the Digital Empowerment and Inclusion Working Group.


Dr. Harrison holds 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. Dr. Harrison is the proud child of Jamaican immigrants and enjoys globetrotting with her husband at a moment’s notice.

MUSINGS

What We're Talking About When We Talk About Rural AI

NUL Legislative Policy Conference: Tech Justice: Centering Equity in the AI Era and Balancing for Innovation

NUL Legislative Policy Conference: Tech Justice: Centering Equity in the AI Era and Balancing for Innovation

I participated in a podcast where we discussed the need for a policy agenda for "Rural AI."

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NUL Legislative Policy Conference: Tech Justice: Centering Equity in the AI Era and Balancing for Innovation

NUL Legislative Policy Conference: Tech Justice: Centering Equity in the AI Era and Balancing for Innovation

NUL Legislative Policy Conference: Tech Justice: Centering Equity in the AI Era and Balancing for Innovation

Moderated a panel that explored how AI technologies and policies must uphold civil rights by mitigating harms in election interference, the criminal legal system, and life opportunities (housing, jobs, education, etc.). 

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Responsible AI Development in the Shadow of Profit is a Balancing Act

NUL Legislative Policy Conference: Tech Justice: Centering Equity in the AI Era and Balancing for Innovation

Responsible AI Development in the Shadow of Profit is a Balancing Act

An op-ed co-authored with Michael Akinwumi, Chief Responsible AI Officer at the National Fair Housing Alliance. We delve into two major challenges that arise in an age of rapidly advancing AI: skepticism toward developers' ability to create safe, secure, and trustworthy systems, and the tension between ethical development and private investment in innovation.

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AI Insight Forum: High Impact AI

2023 Joint Center Future of Black Communities Summit

Responsible AI Development in the Shadow of Profit is a Balancing Act

Served as a participant in the bipartisan AI Insight Forum, hosted by Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-NM), Sen. Mike Rounds (R-SD), Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY), and Sen. Todd Young (R-IN), on the high-impact uses of AI. It aims to explore the highest impact areas, including important topics like AI in the financial sector and health industry, and

Served as a participant in the bipartisan AI Insight Forum, hosted by Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-NM), Sen. Mike Rounds (R-SD), Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY), and Sen. Todd Young (R-IN), on the high-impact uses of AI. It aims to explore the highest impact areas, including important topics like AI in the financial sector and health industry, and how AI developers and deployers can best mitigate potential harms.

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An Agenda for Rural AI

2023 Joint Center Future of Black Communities Summit

2023 Joint Center Future of Black Communities Summit

Participated in a workshop to:

  • Identify the critical questions/issues surrounding AI in the rural context
  • Build framework(s) for rural AI policy
  • Build a network of practice surrounding rural AI
  • Identify further areas of inquiry and collaboration for the rural context.

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2023 Joint Center Future of Black Communities Summit

2023 Joint Center Future of Black Communities Summit

2023 Joint Center Future of Black Communities Summit

Moderated a fireside chat with Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel.

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AI and the Future of Work in Black Communities

Served as a moderator for the Congressional Black Caucus 52nd Annual Legislative Conference Technology Equity Session.

The Need for Algorithmic Transparency, Accountability, and Fairness

Served as a panelist for the 2023 National Fair Housing Alliance National Conference, The Fair Housing Act at 55: Advancing a Blueprint for Equity. 

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Artificial Intelligence and the Economy: Charting a Path for Responsible and Inclusive AI

Artificial Intelligence and the Economy: Charting a Path for Responsible and Inclusive AI

Served as a moderator for Session III: Consumer Credit: A Case Study in Model Transparency and Algorithmic Bias hosted by the U.S. Department of Commerce and National Institute of Standards and Technology, FinRegLab, and the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI).

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Equity Innovation Ventures

Building Racial Equity into Innovation Ecosystems


 Equity Innovation Ventures is a values-driven consultancy that provides strategic engagement, strategy, and research and writing services to advance social impact in tech for companies and organizations.


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