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 stood out as a strategist, speaker, and consultant, among many other roles. 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 feminist organization Taller Salud, focused on reducing health inequities, achieving gender equality, and eradicating violence and inequality in the communities experiencing social exclusion. Her goal is to build a Puerto Rico where there is health, peace, and development for all. She has received several awards and recognitions, including the Mental Health Equity Fellowship from New Profit (2023), the New York Theological Society Urban Angel Award (2020), and the Rafael and Celestina Cordero Award from the Puerto Rico Community Foundation (2021). 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 Gender Equity Observatory of Puerto Rico, the Board of Directors of the Latin American and Caribbean Women's Health Network, the Environmental Justice Resource Collective of the Kataly Foundation, and part of the strategy team of the Organizing Resilience coalition. She currently serves as an adjuntct 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 presentations. She is a theater director and teacher, a community organizer, and a cultural worker. She is a trained 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.