Bio: Juliet Fink Yates has worked on addressing digital equity since 2001 when she managed a small non-profit ISP for 10,000 low-income Philadelphians. In 2010, she wrote, in collaboration with the City of Philadelphia, a broadband stimulus grant that brought $5.4 million to low-income communities to set up public computer centers in 77 locations. She joined the City of Philadelphia’s Office of Innovation and Technology in March 2020 as the first Digital Inclusion Manager. She is one of the founders of the Technology Learning Collaborative, Philadelphia’s first professional development organization dedicated to digital literacy practitioners and currently manages the Digital Literacy Alliance, a coalition of digital inclusion leaders and seed fund for innovative digital inclusion programs. In her current role as Broadband and Digital Inclusion Manager she has been working on major initiatives to close the digital divide, including the PHLConnectED program to ensure all preK-12 students have internet access, PHLDonateTech to get devices into the hands of those in need, and Philadelphia’s official Digital Equity Plan.
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