Join us for a virtual poetry reading and Q&A with poet and organizer Tawana Petty. The event will conclude with a writing prompt for attendees.

Tawana Petty (she/her) is a mother, social justice organizer, youth advocate, poet and author. She is intricately involved in water rights advocacy, data and digital privacy rights education and racial justice and equity work. She serves as the National Organizing Director at Data for Black Lives, former board member of the James and Grace Lee Boggs Center to Nurture Community Leadership, co-founder and former editorial board member of Riverwise Magazine, former director of the Data Justice Program at Detroit Community Technology Project, former co-lead of Our Data Bodies, a convening member of the Detroit Digital Justice Coalition, a practitioner fellow with the Digital Civil Society Lab at the Stanford PACS, and director of Petty Propolis, a Black woman led artist incubator primarily focused on cultivating visionary resistance through poetry, literacy and literary workshops, anti-racism facilitation, and social justice initiatives. Tawana was named one of 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics in 2021.

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