Tammea

Tammea’s passion for social justice and advocacy, particularly racial injustice, gender-based violence, and youth rights, has been the driving force through her professional journey in both the nonprofit and philanthropic sectors.

Tammea has spent twenty-five years as an operations and program leader utilizing an anti-oppression, racial equity, and feminist lens. Most recently, she served as the vice president of operations and finance at a national social justice foundation; before that, as the chief operations officer of strategic development for a national intervention organization for women of African descent facing reproductive injustice, birth injustice, and sexual violence. She managed human resources, wellness, DEI, fund development, grants management, finance, technology, organization development, and operations in both of these roles. This experience is preceded by fifteen years as an executive and vice president for a national community organization that centered community needs, gender, and racial equity. As a consultant, she has worked with various foundations, corporations, and nonprofits, managing grant funds and contracts of over twenty-five million dollars.

One of Tammea’s proudest achievements includes a partnership with the Commission on Human Rights, where she commemorated the 50th anniversary of Brown vs. Board of Education, receiving recognition from Community Counseling and Mediation. Tammea was also an honored recipient of the Judge Byrne award and spearheaded the first diversity conference for over 1000 professionals of color. Another cornerstone of her experience includes partnering with the Obama Administration on two projects, most notably a racial equity project between the United States and South Africa.

An educator by nature, Tammea taught for many years at the collegiate level, tackling birth justice, infant and maternal mortality in Black and brown communities, incarceration and criminal justice, child poverty, trauma, gender construction in childhood, child abuse, gender-based violence, and sex trafficking. Her credentials include a BA in education with a concentration in children’s rights and a master’s in social work, where she graduated cum laude with a concentration on community organizing. Tammea also earned a specialization certificate in global social work with a concentration on trauma and sexual violence. She is currently earning her MBA with a concentration in international business.

Tammea is also a trained birth and postpartum doula and community birth justice educator and activist. Offering her services in Black and brown communities grounds her and centers her practice as a somatic practitioner.

Her multitude of experiences makes her an exceptional advocate for self-care, wellness, and healing justice.