TANIA ROSARIO MÉNDEZ
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Sobre mi
Tania es una activista, educadora, salubrista y defensora de derechos humanos, nacida y criada en Puerto Rico. Combina su grado de Maestría en Salud Pública de la Universidad de Puerto Rico con más de 18 años de experiencia en el sector sin fines de lucro. Durante su trayectoria ha integrado la gerencia de proyectos, la gestión cultural, la organización comunitaria, la educación popular y el trabajo de incidencia en políticas públicas.
About me
Tania is an activist, educator, public health specialist, and human rights advocate, born and raised in Puerto Rico. She combines her master’s degree in public health from the University of Puerto Rico with over 18 years of experience in the non-profit sector. Throughout her career, she has integrated project management, cultural and community organizing, popular education, and public policy advocacy work.
SOBRE MÍ
Tania es una activista, educadora, salubrista y defensora de derechos humanos, nacida y criada en Puerto Rico. Combina su grado de Maestría en Salud Pública de la Universidad de Puerto Rico con más de 18 años de experiencia en el sector sin fines de lucro. Durante su trayectoria ha integrado la gerencia de proyectos, la gestión cultural, la organización comunitaria, la educación popular y el trabajo de incidencia en políticas públicas.
Desde 2016 lidera los trabajos de la histórica organización feminista Taller Salud enfocada en reducir las inequidades en salud, alcanzar la igualdad de género y erradicar la violencia y la desigualdad en las comunidades que viven con mayor exclusión social. Su meta es construir un Puerto Rico donde haya salud, paz y desarrollo para todos y todas.
Ha recibido varios premios y reconocimientos, entre ellos destacan el New York Theological Society Urban Angel Award (2020) y el Galardón Rafael y Celestina Cordero de la Fundación Comunitaria de Puerto Rico (2021). Además, es conferenciante de TedTalk (2019), becaria de Vital Voices (2019), co-fundadora del Maria Fund en el Puerto Rico post-Huracán Maria (2017) e integrante de la Junta Directiva del Observatorio de Equidad de Género de Puerto Rico. Tania es también parte del Consejo Directivo de la Red de Salud de las Mujeres Latinoamericanas y del Caribe, integrante del Colectivo de Movilización de Recursos para Justicia Ambiental de la Fundacion Kataly y parte del equipo de estrategia de la coalición Organizing Resilience.
Actualmente se desempeña además como profesora en la Maestría en Gestión Cultural del Programa de Estudios Interdisciplinarios de la Universidad de Puerto Rico.
Es autora de dos libros y varios artículos y ponencias. Es directora y profesora de teatro, organizadora comunitaria y gestora cultural. Es doula de espectro completo y educadora pre-
natal. Es también una madre orgullosa: su hijo es un talentoso estudiante universitario y su hija es una brillante estudiante de secundaria. Está inmensa y aguerridamente feliz de estar viva.
ABOUT ME
Tania is an activist, educator, public health specialist, and human rights advocate, born and raised in Puerto Rico. She combines her master’s degree in public health from the University of Puerto Rico with over 18 years of experience in the non-profit sector. Throughout her career, she has integrated project management, cultural and community organizing, popular education, and public policy advocacy work.
Since 2016, she has led the work of Puerto Rico’s historic feminist organization Taller Salud, focused on reducing health inequities, achieving gender equality, and eradicating violence and inequality in communities that live with greater social exclusion. Her goal is to build a Puerto Rico where there is health, peace, and development opportunities in every community.
She has received several awards and recognitions, including the New York Theological Society Urban Angel Award (2020) and the Rafael and Celestina Cordero Award from the Puerto Rico Community Foundation (2021). She is also a TedTalk speaker (2019), a Vital Voices fellow (2019), co-founder of the Maria Fund in post-Hurricane Maria Puerto Rico (2017), and a member of the Board of Directors of the Gender Equity Observatory of Puerto Rico. Tania is also part of the Board of Directors of the Latin American and Caribbean Women's Health Network, a member of the Kataly Foundation's Environmental Justice Resourcing Collective, and part of the strategy team of Organizing Resilience.
She currently also works as a professor in the Master's in Cultural Management of the Interdisciplinary Studies Program at the University of Puerto Rico.
She is the author of two books and several articles and conferences. She is a theater director and professor, and a community and cultural organizer. She is a full-spectrum doula and prenatal educator. She is also a proud mother: her son, a talented sophomore in college and her daughter, a bright middle school student. She is immensely and fiercely happy to be alive.
"My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style"
Maya Angelou