2022 GMiS Luminary Honorees

As the CEO of Reboot Representation, a coalition committed to doubling the number of Black, Latina, and Native American women graduating with computing degrees by 2025, Dwana Franklin-Davis is actively working toward a more diverse corporate culture in the computing fields — and dismantling the norms that inhibit inclusivity in the process. She excels at designing and executing targeted interventions to specifically reach Black and Latina women, including initiatives with Rewriting the Code’s Latinas de RTC group, and the Computing Alliance of Hispanic-Serving Institutions, to name just a few groups she’s working with.

Under her leadership, Reboot Representation has had a tremendous impact steering corporate philanthropic and social responsibility giving into underrepresented communities. In 2017, only 5% of corporate philanthropy dollars went towards gender diversity efforts, and less than 0.1% of grants ($335,000) focused on women of color specifically. By working directly with a 22-member coalition of leading tech companies on collaborative, pooled investments, Reboot Representation has helped secure pledges of more than $26 million for Black, Latina, and Native American women in computing, amounting to an outstanding 7000% increase.

Before taking the helm at Reboot Representation, Ms. Franklin-Davis held positions as an IT professional at May Department Store Companies, IBM, and MasterCard, where she was a founding member of MasterCard's Leveraging Employees of African Descent business resource group.  She also served as the St. Louis Chapter President for the Black Data Processing Associates.

Now based in New York City, Ms. Franklin-Davis serves on the National Center for Women in Information Technology’s board of directors, the Breakthrough Tech Advisory Committee, and the Last Mile Education Fund’s Champions Board.