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Tawana, a Black woman with short, blond natural hair, smiles at the camera. She is sitting on a beige chair in front of a fuchsia background, framed by bird of paradise plants. She is wearing thick black framed glasses, silver earrings and piercings, a necklace with a blue stone, and a black shirt under a gray and black patchwork jacket.
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Tawana Petty

(she/her)Detroit, MI
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Tawana Petty, known by stage name Honeycomb, is a mother, facilitator, social justice organizer, poet, and author. Petty's work prioritizes racial justice, data, digital justice, privacy, and consent. She is a 2023–2025 Just Tech Fellow with the Social Science Research Council and Executive Director of Petty Propolis, Inc., an artist incubator which teaches poetry, literary and literacy workshops, anti-racism facilitation, and political education. Petty serves on the Computer Science for Detroit Steering Committee and is a National Leading from the Inside Out Yearlong Alumni Fellow with the Rockwood Leadership Institute. She is an alumni fellow of the Digital Civil Society Lab at Stanford PACS, Detroit Equity Action Lab, and Art Matters Foundation.