Tawana Petty is a mother, organizer, poet, and author. She is a long-time social justice organizer whose work focuses primarily on racial justice and equity issues, as well as advocating for data and digital privacy and consent. She serves as Director of Policy and Advocacy at the Algorithmic Justice League and is an alumni fellow of the Digital Civil Society Lab at Stanford and the Detroit Equity Action Lab. Tawana has been convening the Detroit Digital Justice Coalition since 2016, where she organizes Data DiscoTechs (short for discovering technology) to demystify technology for communities who exist outside of the dominant tech knowledge ecosystem. She formerly served as Director of the Data Justice Program at the Detroit Community Technology Project, former co-lead of Our Data Bodies and former National Organizing Director at for Data for Black Lives. Tawana also runs Petty Propolis, an artist incubator.