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Name
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Tiera Tanksley
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Bio
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Dr. Tiera Tanksley is an Assistant professor of Equity, Diversity, and Justice in Education at the University of Colorado Boulder. Her scholarship, which theorizes a critical race technology theory (CRTT) in education, extends conventional education research to include sociotechnical and techno-structural analyses of artificially intelligent technologies. Specifically, Dr. Tanksley’s research examines anti-Blackness as “the default setting” of digital technology and examines the socioemotional and academic consequences of algorithmic racism in the lives and schooling experiences of Black youth. Her work simultaneously recognizes Black youth as digital activists and civic agitators and examines the complex ways they subvert, resist and rewrite racially biased technologies to produce more just and joyous digital experiences for Communities of Color across the diaspora.
Dr. Tanksley’s scholarship has been awarded several competitive grants in computer science and engineering, including an NSF grant to support her work on race, technology, and decolonial engineering in a global context, and an Engineering and AI-Augmented Learning grant for her work on designing race-conscious and justice-oriented technologies with Black youth. In 2022, Dr. Tanksley received the Emerging Leader in Critical Race Technology Studies Fellowship from UCLA.
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Affiliation
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The University of Colorado Boulder.
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Position
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Assistant professor of Equity, Diversity, and Justice in Education
