Dr. Dominique Harrison

Dr. Dominique Harrison is a mission-oriented public policy executive and expert on the intersection of racial equity and responsible innovation in finance, technology, and telecommunications. Currently, she serves as the Acting 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 grantmaking office that engages Historically Black Colleges & Universities (HBCUs), Tribal Colleges & Universities (TCUs) and Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs), along with their surrounding communities, to promote economic growth, expand high-speed internet connectivity and digital opportunities.

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), the Center for Democracy & Technology, 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, and a member of the 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.