Fallon S. Wilson

As Co-Founder and Lead Principal Investigator for #BlackTechFutures Research Institute, Dr. Wilson engages in community action that creates change in her community and across the US. Currently. The Institute’s work builds a national network of city-based researchers and practitioners researching sustainable local Black tech ecosystems, especially within underrepresented communities. Her research includes the #Black Tech Ecosystem Index that has been and will continue to be applied to a series of reports about digital futures in predominantly Black communities in the South, starting with Birmingham, Houston, Memphis, and Nashville. Dr. Wilson represents as the Vice President of Policy for the Multicultural Media, Telecom, and Internet Council, through which she launched a national campaign, Black Churches 4 Digital Equity. As a former member of the Federal Communications Commission’s Communication Equity and Diversity Council, Dr. Wilson chaired the Digital Inclusion and Anchor Institution Subgroup. Currently, Dr. Wilson serves on the Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development’s Digital Opportunity Taskforce, as an Advisory Board member for the Digital Black Religion Project, and as a 2022 Mosaic Women in Policy PPI Fellow. In October 2022, she was one of six women policymakers invited to attend the PPI Congressional Delegation to Europe to discuss how countries are addressing digitalization. In coordination with Congressional Black Caucus Tech 2025 Co-Chairs Rep. Barbara Lee and Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, Dr. Wilson presented her groundbreaking, bi-partisan research on closing the digital divide by building Black Tech Ecosystems in the US with funding from The Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) Program, The Digital Equity Act, and The CHIPS and Science Act. Dr. Wilson holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Spelman College and from the University of Chicago, two degrees, a Master of Arts in Political Science, and a Doctor of Philosophy in Social Service Administration. As a Public Interest Technologist, she discusses race, gender, faith, and civic tech issues through her writing and presentations.