Center for Technology Innovation welcomes Dr. Nicol Turner-Lee

Brookings Vice President Darrell West announced that Dr Nicol Turner-Lee has joined the Brookings Institution’s Governance Studies program. Dr Turner-Lee will serve as a fellow in the program’s Center for Technology Innovation and as a contributor to TechTank. Dr Turner-Lee comes to Brookings from the Multicultural Media, Telecom and Internet Council (MMTC). She served as vice president and chief research and policy officer during her tenure, and led the design and implementation of their research, policy, and advocacy agendas. Dr. Turner-Lee’s most notable research was her development of the first national minority broadband adoption study, empirical research that was conducted during her tenure at the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies and cited in the Federal Communications Commission’s National Broadband Plan. At the Center for Technology Innovation, Dr. Turner-Lee will research public policy designed to enable more equitable access to technology across the US and to harness its power to create change in communities around the world.