The tech sector generally remains homogeneous – male, white, upper-middle class backgrounds. With a diverse set of global threats ranging from critical infrastructure and fair elections to financial markets and disinformation, technologists will be on the front line of safety and security for decades to come. Sometimes, however, the impact is all too real.

As Bishop Garrison wrote when introducing this initiative, our hope is that this list will ensure the best and brightest with a variety of views and backgrounds will always have voice. Protego Press aims to be a platform for gifted people of color to identify critical issues at the nexus of technology, policy, and politics that face both their communities and our world in their entirety and what we can do to address them. We hope to be a platform for gifted people of color to identify critical issues at the nexus of technology, policy, and politics that face both their communities and our world in their entirety and what we can do to address them. We desire to be a platform that helps make it easier to find people of color to include on your panels, feature as experts in your media article and keynote your conference. We aspire to be a platform where issues involving tech and race are highlighted and discussed. We intend to be a platform that embraces our greatest asset: diversity.

Below is an incomplete list that has been compiled of people of color working on technology and policy. If you’re name is missing, or if you know others that should be on this list, please email us at info at [name of our site].