Tamila Gresham Email & Phone Number

Oakland, Ca, Us

United States

San Francisco Bay Area

• Set an innovative, equitable, and intersectional vision and direction for engaging the diverse Black community and create and execute a strategic plan to accomplish this vision.• Develop, steward, and maintain mutually beneficial partnerships with organizations aligned to TFA's DEI commitment• Advise and partner with national and regional teams and leaders to support integration of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion best practices and culturally relevant supports across efforts for the internal and external Black community.• Partner with Black and other communities of color across our corps members, alumni, staff, and partners to systematize and institutionalize culturally relevant initiatives, including leading engagement for the Black Staff Advisory Council and serving as project lead for administering our Black Educators Promise Initiative: a $10 million, multi-year investment to retain Black educators in TFA’s network.

San Francisco Bay Area

•Design and implement organization-wide strategic vision for creating strong culture and advancing DEI across all internal and external organizational initiatives and programming and serve as culture and DEI advisor on the senior leadership team.• Designed and spearheaded strategy for organizational culture overhaul after the organizationunderwent a restructure resulting in 23% growth (from 63% to 86%) in staff describing TFA-BayArea as a “great place to work” and establishing TFA-Bay Area as a certified Great Place To Work®according to the national workplace culture survey.• Design, develop, and facilitate organization-wide staff learning and development days resulting in100% of staff survey respondents agreeing or strongly agreeing that the gatherings help ourorganization build an increasingly honest, inclusive, joyful, community-focused culture.• Design and facilitate organization-wide DEI learning program and trainings resulting in 96% of staffsurvey respondents agreeing or strongly agreeing that the trainings help TFA-Bay Area becomemore equitable and fulfill its culture goals and 84% reporting learning key skills that they will be ableto integrate into their work.• Design and facilitate a Manager Learning and Development program, training all managerial staff toincorporate DEI best practices into their management practices and individual teams.• Design, develop, execute, and train relevant staff on all HR functions across the employee lifecycle,including talent recruitment, onboarding, performance management, learning and development,retention, and career pathways/promotions.• Design and manage internal People and Talent Operations, including organization-wide internalcommunications, professional development policies and funding, and managing the People Teambudget.

San Francisco Bay Area

• Develop region-wide strategic vision for advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion across organizational initiatives and programming and advise senior leadership throughout its implementation and execution.• Create and implement dynamic recruiting strategy utilizing a D&I lens resulting in a 20% increase in diversity of talent pools in first iteration of new systems and processes. • Partner with and advise VP of People & Talent Development on embedding D&I best practices in org-wide HR disciplines, including employee learning and development, recruiting and retention efforts, and establishing systems to address breaches in D&I policy and organizational culture.• Create staff D&I learning strategy, including forming Employee Resource Groups/Affinity Groups and developing their programmatic scope and sequence. • Facilitate D&I sessions and programming for TFA corps members, alumni, and staff.

Glendale, California

-Founded 501(c)3 nonprofit working to reach equal representation in television, film, and theater for people of color, women, the LGBT community, folks with disabilities, and all those at intersections of these identities. -Lead all organizational programming and campaigns from conceptualization to completion including our Spotlight on Diversity event, for which, I: recruited a panel of diverse actors from Orange is the New Black, Scandal, Glee, and more; secured over $15,000 in-kind donations; and attracted 20 local volunteers and over 200 attendees.-Consult with and train entertainment industry executives on how to create and implement diverse, equitable, and inclusive policies and programming.-Cultivated listserv of 2,000+ donors with an 85% engagement rate, built social media network of 15,000+, and leveraged them to raise over $130,000 for NGOs with similar missions. -Recruited 6 active and engaged board members.-Recruited, trained, and managed a 7-member staff representative of the diverse communities we serve.-Managed organizational finances and budget and stewarded a diverse portfolio of funders.

Oakland, California

-Participated in all aspects of litigation including drafting complaints, subpoenas, and motions, researching class members for potential class actions, interviewing witnesses, and conducting extensive document review-Researched, analyzed, and drafted memoranda to aid in investigations

Berkeley, California

-Provided pro bono legal services for East Bay youth facing expulsion & juvenile justice proceedings as a member of the Education Defense and Justice for Youth program. -Successfully argued in court, securing least restrictive probation for youth client.-Built database of East Bay educational, nonprofit, and legal resources and organizations that made it possible for interns and lawyers to easily connect youth clients and their families to appropriate services.

San Francisco, California

-Drafted plaintiff complaints and demand letters in personal injury cases, including claims of medical malpractice, defective products, and dangerous conditions of public property. -Co-authored article entitled "Proving the defect in a bicycle" published in Plaintiff Magazine.

Berkeley, California

-Researched and analyzed legal issues impacting the LGBT community and people of color using a critical race theory framework to examine intersections of race, sexuality, law, and power. -Prepared clear and concise reports and memoranda on structural and institutional barriers to LGBT and racial equity. Research and analysis included in: Marriage Equality and Postracialism (UCLA Law Review, 2014), and Unequal Protection (Stanford Law Review, 2016).

Los Angeles, California

-Researched and drafted memoranda on transgender prisoner rights to receive hormone replacement therapy.-Conducted intake interviews for national legal help desk and assessed over 100 potential clients for suitability as plaintiffs in impact litigation.

Hartford, Connecticut Area

• Teach For America (TFA) ’09 Connecticut Corps Member. Served as founding and lead Sixth Grade Reading teacher as a licensed elementary teacher at a college preparatory, public charter school, for 99% low-income students of color.• Adapted state standards to build a Reading curriculum highlighting characters and issues across genders, sexual orientations, economic classes, and races and ethnicities, resulting in a 41% increase in the number of students performing at or above proficient in Reading on the 2011 Connecticut Mastery Test.• Served on TFA Connecticut’s inaugural Corps Member Advisory Board, collected and analyzed corps member satisfaction data, and translated it into programs and policies to better the corps member experience.