Tawana "Honeycomb" Petty

Tawana Petty, also known by her poetry stage name Honeycomb, is a mother, social justice organizer, poet, author, facilitator and keynote lecturer. Her work focuses on racial justice, equity, privacy, and consent.

She is the founding Executive Director of Petty Propolis, Inc., an artist incubator, which leverages poetry, policy literacy and advocacy, anti-racism facilitation, political education and community-centered initiatives in pursuit of data and digital justice and racial and environmental justice.

Petty serves on the steering committee for CS (computer science) for Detroit. She is an alumni fellow of the Digital Civil Society Lab at Stanford PACS, the Detroit Equity Action Lab, Art Matters Foundation, Just Tech with the Social Science Research Council, and is a National LIO Yearlong alumni member of the Rockwood Leadership Institute. In 2024, Petty was named on Business Insider's AI Power List for Policy and Ethics.