About me

Tania is an organizer, public health professional, 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 more than 18 years of experience in the nonprofit sector, where she has distinguished herself as a strategist, speaker, and consultant. Throughout her career, she has integrated project management, cultural work, community organizing, popular education, and public policy advocacy. Since 2016, she has led the work of the historic Puerto Rican feminist organization Taller Salud, focused on reducing health inequalities, achieving gender equity, and eradicating violence and poverty in historically marginalized communities. Her goal is to make health, peace, development, and wellbeing guaranteed for everyone in Puerto Rico. She has received several awards and recognitions, including the Mental Health Equity Fellowship from New Profit (2023), the Rafael and Celestina Cordero Award from the Puerto Rico Community Foundation (2021), and the New York Theological Society Urban Angel Award (2020). She has also been a TedTalk speaker (2019), a Vital Voices fellow (2019), and co-founded the Maria Fund in post-Hurricane Maria Puerto Rico (2017). She is currently a member of the Board of Directors of the Puerto Rico Gender Equity Observatory, the Board of Directors of the Latin American and Caribbean Women's Health Network (LACWHN), and the Advisory Board of the Latin American Consortium Against Unsafe Abortions. She is also a member of the Environmental Justice Resource Mobilization Collective at the Kataly Foundation, and part of the strategy team of the Organizing Resilience coalition. She is currently part of the faculty of the Master's in Cultural Management department of the Interdisciplinary Studies Program at the University of Puerto Rico. She is the author of two books and dozens of articles and presentations. She is a theater director and teacher, a cultural and community organizer, and a certified full-spectrum doula and prenatal educator. She is also a proud mother: her son is a talented college student, and her daughter is a brilliant high school student. She is immensely and fiercely happy to be alive.