Dominique Harrison

Dr. Dominique Harrison is Director of Racial Equity Design and Data Initiative (REDDI) at Citi Ventures Innovation, where she is pioneering technology-led practices and solutions for reducing bias and promoting equity for people and communities of color. REDDI aims to leverage technology to address inequities in the product development cycle to advance racial equity and financial inclusion. Dr. Harrison works with a multi-disciplinary team across Citi to help close the racial wealth gap and increase economic mobility in the U.S.

Prior to Citi Ventures, 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 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 health care 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 Ventures, 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.