Bétel Tenna is proud first generation college student, tennis player, yorkie mom, and lifelong student of Africana studies, history, politics, law, and engineering. With a focus on international technology law and public policy, her work explores digital rights and the implications of emerging technologies for communities of African descent. Bétel is receiving her minor in Information Technology from Princeton’s Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP). She has been recognized for her academic excellence and leadership with national honors including the Amazon Future Engineer Scholarship, Ron Brown Scholarship, Generation Google Scholarship, Coca-Cola Scholarship, Horatio Alger Scholarship, Lockheed Martin STEM Scholarship, Princeton Prize for Race Relations, and more. Bétel is a self-starter who imagines a better world and brings her plans to fruition. She has a passion for serving others and has been involved with the Hugh O’Brian Youth Leadership Seminar as a regional ambassador in 2018 and seminar facilitator in the years since then. As a 2020 Riley’s Way Foundation grant recipient and 2025 Riley’s Way mentor and grant application judge, she believes that intergenerational community organizing is the strongest avenue for change. 

Professionally, Betel is a software engineer whose work is grounded in design justice and human agency. Throughout three internships at Amazon, she contributed to cloud infrastructure design, full stack development of new features for Alexa Music, and is a certified AWS Cloud Practitioner. As the lead software developer for the African Content Moderators Union, she designed a digital platform cooperative to support workers rights of AI data annotators and content moderators across Africa, addressing digital labor law concerns, algorithmic fairness, and data governance. 

As an emerging leader in the ethical development of technology, she champions solutions that empower communities of African descent.