Joycelyn Tate is a technology and telecommunications policy advocate and strategist. She advocates for technology and telecommunications policy reform and corporate best practices that advance diversity and inclusion in technology employment and entrepreneurship, and affordable technology access in underserved communities. She is the senior technology policy advisor for the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation and the Black Women’s Roundtable. Joycelyn is a contributing author to the Black Women’s Roundtable annual report where she has authored Black Women in the High-Tech Industry: Employment and Entrepreneurship (2016) and Black Women and Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) (2014). In addition to her advocacy work, Joycelyn organizes mobile app hackathons and workshops in the Washington DC area and conducts seminars for small business owners on effective ways to use social media to promote their businesses. Joycelyn also hosts Telecom Talk on The FLOW Radio where she discusses consumer technology and telecommunications issues.