Tanay is a seasoned organizer and abolitionist working at the intersection of human rights, racial justice and reproductive justice. Tanay is a Lactation Specialist, Certified Perinatal Educator with Commonsense Childbirth Institute, Postnatal Doula, trained with Abuela Doulas in the United Kingdom, a community researcher and ethnographer centered on Black maternal and child health, global and community health, reproductive justice and human rights.Tanay has worked with various national and international human rights and racial justice institutions over the past 16 years. She has worked on numerous high profile cases within the realm of criminal justice, education and voting rights.Tanay is a trusted advisor and strategist to countless community-based organizations and businesses. She is an advisory board member of CLLCTIVLY, Board Member of Orita’s Cross Freedom School, the Maryland Breastfeeding Coalition, a Kindred Partner of the Black Mamas Matter Alliance, and co-Chair of the Maryland Maternal Health Improvement Task Force. Tanay believes that our collective work must be holistic, decolonized, center radical imagination, invest in the community and trust our long view history and genius to make long-lasting change.Tanay is a graduate of Africana Studies at Temple University and the School for Social Policy & Practice at the University of Pennsylvania.