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Nicol Turner Lee

Senior Fellow & Director, Center for Technology Innovation at Brookings Institution; Public Policy Researcher

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Nicol Turner Lee Biography

Nicol Turner Lee is a Senior Fellow in Governance Studies, Director of the Center for Technology Innovation (CTI), and serves as co-editor-in-chief of TechTank at the nonprofit public policy organization Brookings Institution. Turner Lee researches public policy designed to enable equitable access to technology across the U.S. and to harness its power to create change in communities across the world. Her work also explores global and domestic broadband deployment and internet governance issues. She is an expert on the intersection of race, wealth, and technology within the context of civic engagement, criminal justice, and economic development.

Turner Lee comes to Brookings from the Multicultural Media, Telecom and Internet Council (MMTC), a national not-for-profit organization dedicated to promoting and preserving equal opportunity and civil rights in the mass media, telecommunications, and broadband industries, where she served as vice president and chief research and policy officer. In this role, she led the design and implementation of their research, policy and advocacy agendas.

Prior to joining MMTC, Turner Lee was vice president and the first director of the Media and Technology Institute at the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, the nation’s leading think tank on issues related to African Americans and other people of color. Here, she led the technology research agenda that was focused on advancing digital equity and inclusion for historically disadvantaged populations. Her most notable work was her development of the first national minority broadband adoption study in 2009 that was later cited in the congressionally mandated Federal Communications Commission’s National Broadband Plan.

Turner Lee’s most recent publications address biases in machine learning algorithms, the digital divide, 5G mobile infrastructure and telehealth. She has written extensively on the digital divide in both urban and rural areas, and the availability of local health resources, including those enabled through telemedicine. Expanding on this topic is her book, “Digitally Invisible: How the Internet is Creating the New Underclass."

Turner Lee has been cited in the New York Times, Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Communications Daily, Multichannel News, and Washington Informer. She can also be seen or heard on NPR, NBC News, ABC and other print and online publications. A widely sought expert and speaker on issues related to communications policies in media and at conferences, she has testified on multiple occasions before Congress.

She was a two-time Digital Research Program Scholar as part of Time Warner Cable’s Cable Research Program in Communications and recipient of countless recognitions, including the presentation of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Rainbow PUSH Coalition in 2015 and 2019, and one of the Most Inspiring Women in Media from the Alliance of Women in Media in 2014.

Turner Lee graduated from Colgate University magna cum laude and has an MA and PhD in sociology from Northwestern University. She also holds a certificate in nonprofit management from the University of Illinois-Chicago. She is a visiting scholar at the Center for Gender Equity in Science and Technology at Arizona State University. She also serves on the Federal Communications Commission broadband advisory working group and digital diversity working group. In her free time, she serves as Chair of the Telecommunications Policy Research Conference (TPRC), which is committed to joining policymakers and academics around significant tech policy issues.

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Speaker profile last updated by AAE Talent Team on 10/11/2024.

Nicol Turner Lee Videos

  • Nicol Turner Lee - Washington Post Live
    Nicol Turner Lee - Washington Post Live
    Nicol Turner Lee: "People are sitting still in digital deserts."
  • Nicol Turner Lee - CGTN
    Nicol Turner Lee - CGTN
    Nicol Turner Lee on the intersection of race and technology and how that crossroad can impact communities.
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Nicol Turner Lee Books

  • Digitally Invisible: How the Internet Is Creating the New Underclass
    Digitally Invisible: How the Internet Is Creating the New Underclass

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