Perpetrator No. 3
Tiana Epps-Johnson -
Founder/ ExecutiveDirector @ Center for
Tech and Civic Life
Tiana Epps-Johnson is the Founder and Executive Director of the non-partisan, Zuckerburg-funded Center for tech and Civic Life. Prior to founding CTCL, Tiana worked for New Organizing Institute, a left-progressive group that trained digital organizers for the Democratic Party. In 2018, she was named to the inaugural class of the Obama Foundation Fellows. Tiana currently sits on the board of the Center for Civic Design, featured earlier this month.
Tiana and her nonpartisan team funded and advised thousands of local election offices during the 2020 election. The CTCL team provided for poll-worker training, drop boxes, vote by mail campaign, and much more all with level-handed nonpartisanship.
On August 5, 2021 Epps-Johnson joined the Run For Something PAC founder, Amanda Litman for a podcast segment titled “Why You Shouldn’t Run Your Elections on Windows 7”. Tiana and Amanda spoke about the threats of mis-information campaigns for election officials and the need for proper training to combat them. (Run For Something seeks to install young progressives in down-ballot races, such as election admin positions. RFS proudly supports candidates who are “pro-choice, pro-universal health care, pro-LGBTQ equality, pro-criminal justice reform; pro-working families and organized labor, pro-voting rights…..”).
Exhibit No. 3->
While this may well be an innocent working relationship, Epps-Johnson, appears to consistently align with severely partisan ideals and personas (see list below). Even subtle digital endorsements, such as this, are enough to make one contemplate just how “nonpartisan” Tiana was while she commanded $400 + million of election funding.
Items of note found in a cursory search of the @tianaej twitter feed include:
-November 7, 2020 retweets BU professor calling the "legal vote" a functionally racist term.
-November 3, 2020 Tiana replies "happy election day" to Aaron Strauss. Aaron Strauss worked with Tiana on the liberally funded Voter Information Project. Aaron’s twitter bio proudly proclaims that he “Used science to defeat Trump”.
-November 5, 2020 retweets “debunking” of mis-information of conservative websites.
-December 2, 2020 retweets defense of "Defund the Police".
-January 6, 2020 Tiana retweets calls for Senators Cruz and Hawley to immediately resign.
May 19, 2021 Tiana retweets defense of Critical Race Theory in academics.
