TiAuna Dodd (Tenacious Tia) is a DevOps Engineer for the National Basketball Association based in Charlotte, North Carolina. As a Howard University Alumna, she is passionate about community building and creating spaces for techies and for women of color to discover and celebrate themselves. As a technologist and a developer advocate, Tia gets that being constantly “plugged in” can cause overstimulation, distraction, and burnout. She founded Tenacious U to share tools and empower communities to move from digital fatigue to creativity, productivity and purpose.