Tia Price
Tia Price is leading a coalition formed in response to the pandemic into year two with a new broadband benefit push.
Price is three months in to her position as director of the Baltimore Digital Equity Coalition (BDEC), and is the organization’s first full-time hire. After serving as director of programs at Wide Angle Youth Media and a brief stint as a teacher with Teach For America, Price became intimately familiar with the effects of the digital divide.
BDEC is a union of 50 different organizations across the city to address digital disparities that leave 40% of Baltimore without internet access and one out of three households without a desktop or laptop computer. Formed as the pandemic created new urgency around closing these gaps, it brings together orgs across a vast swath of sectors, from nonprofits working on tech access, organizations of parents and teachers working to improve education, foundations, school leaders and government.
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