Tiera Tanksley, PhD

Dr. Tiera Tanksley is a Senior Research Scientist and a 2025 Spencer Foundation Fellow in AI and Education whose work examines the socioemotional, mental health and academic impacts of digital and artificially intelligent technologies on 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 around the globe.