Joycelyn Tate is an associate media broker with MMTC Media Brokers, a division of the Minority Media and Telecommunications Council. Ms. Tate provides a full range of brokerage services to buyers and sellers of broadcast companies throughout the United States. MMTC Media Brokers is the 15th largest of the nation’s 60 media brokerage firms, having participated in media transactions valued at over $1.7 billion.

Ms. Tate also works with MMTC's Law and Policy Division, where she advocates for minority media ownership. She works with MMTC's Access to Capital Group and is the chair of MMTC's Rural Broadband Group.

Prior to joining MMTC Media Brokers, Ms. Tate worked at the Minority Media and Telecommunications Council as its Earle K. Moore Fellow. As the Moore fellow, she advocated for law and policy to advance entrepreneurial opportunities for minorities and women in the media and telecommunications industries. She wrote comments on behalf of MMTC and its members and associate organizations that were filed in rulemaking proceedings at the Federal Communications Commission. Ms. Tate also participated in advocacy projects to promote media ownership for minorities and women.

Ms. Tate is an established professional in the field of communications policy. A few of Ms. Tate's professional memberships include the Federal Communications Bar Association and the Digital Television Transition Coalition. She has appeared on television, industry panels, and forums to discuss telecommunications issues such as: digital television, media ownership, and telecommunications policy.  

In the office of United States Representative Sheila Jackson Lee, Ms. Tate worked on telecommunications issues. She worked with Congresswoman Jackson-Lee to address the issues of the “digital divide” and worked to develop programs that make technology more accessible to undeserved populations.  She also worked with Representative Jackson-Lee on child advocacy, health care, and women’s advocacy issues. Ms. Tate worked with Representative Jackson-Lee and other congressional and public leaders to coordinate the National Summit on Africa, a delegation of national leaders who advocate positive U.S. foreign policy towards Africa in the areas of trade, debt relief, AIDS prevention and other issues concerning African countries.
    
In the office of United States Representative Donald Payne, Ms. Tate served worked on foreign affairs issues. On behalf of Representative Payne, she focused on several areas of foreign affairs, including: the status of the Haitian government, the Taliban in Afghanistan, United States’ immigration policy, and African affairs. 

Ms. Tate served in the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau of the Federal Communications Bureau where she worked on regulations for the wireless telecommunications industry. She also conducted research and analysis for the FCC on the problems experienced by small, women and minority-owned businesses when trying to obtain capital financing in order to enter the telecommunications market.

Ms. Tate formerly held the position of chief operating officer at Multisoft Technologies, an information technology firm in Maryland. She was also an adjunct professor of communications law at Howard University’s John H. Johnson School of Communications and Bowie State University’s Department of Communications. 

Ms. Tate has extensive experience in broadcast operations and production. She has worked as a television producer of documentaries and programs on local and national politics, foreign affairs, and social issues.

In 2008, Ms. Tate served on the board of directors of the Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC). USAC administers the Universal Service Fund, a $7 billion fund that is responsible for providing access to affordable telecommunications services throughout the United States.

Ms. Tate earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the School of Communications at Howard University; a Juris Doctor degree from Columbus School of Law at Catholic University of America, where she was a Chief Justice Earl Warren legal scholar; a Certificate of Specialization in Communications Law from the Institute of Communications Law Studies at the Columbus School of Law; and a Graduate Certificate in International Studies, with regional study focused on China, from the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University.

Ms. Tate has a working familiarity with Madarin Chinese, French, and Spanish laguages.