ABOUT TANYA

CAREER SUMMARY

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Executive with over two decades experience building best-in-class organizations. Able to identify what needs to be done and make it happen with emotionally intelligent team management, an unswerving focus on mission, relentless prioritization, and creation of right-sized systems.

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CORE COMPETENCIES

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Scope and manage complex projects ● Build high performing teams ● Create accurate budgets and financial forecasts ● Run programmatically successful events and trainings ● Solve problems ● Design processes ● Cultivate foundation, donor and client relationships ● Manage organizational change

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EXPERIENCE & SELECT ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Project Management Consultant FEB 2023 - PRESENT

● Climate Works Foundation: Support funders and issue experts in developing strategic sessions to identify climate mitigation opportunities and increase individual and collective impact.

● The Sierra Fund: Research foundations, conduct outreach, participate in meetings and advise on strategy,

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We Also Walk Dogs/EveryAction - Vice-President of Product, ActionKit JUNE 2009 - DEC 2022

● Helped launch and led growth into an $11 million business and the premier digital advocacy and fundraising platform used by 350, NRDC, Bernie Sanders, AOC, and MoveOn, among others.

● Oversaw successful transition from founder-President to co-leader model, distributing ownership and reducing single points of failure.

● Created and led collaborative product design process, balancing competing priorities to create tools that helped clients win campaigns and build power in a constantly evolving landscape.

● Spearheaded bi-weekly release cycle and authored release notes, translating developers’ commit log entries into organizer-friendly descriptions.

● Led sales, onboarding and client relations, achieving 90%+ client retention rate and an 80+ NPS score.

● Organized annual client conferences and staff retreats that deepened community ties and provided invaluable customer and staff input.

● Managed team of senior software engineers, fostering a culture of high productivity and low turnover.

MoveOn.org - Electoral Initiatives Director JUNE 2005 - MAY 2009

● Managed on-time and in-budget development of electoral software.

● Brought priority learnings to each successive phase and consistently simplified requirements while ensuring completion of highest value features.

● Built consensus, juggled competing priorities, and brought along stakeholders.

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ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE

Truckee Donner Land Trust - Associate Director, Sierra Business Council - Associate Director, The Public Interest Network - Assistant to the Chair

● Ran successful major donor, foundation and direct mail fundraising programs.

● Managed budgets, oversaw financial reporting, hired and supervised accountants.

● Coordinated highly-rated programmatic conferences, seminars and events.

EDUCATION

UC Berkeley - BA, Political Economy of Industrial Societies