Tara Deviki Venkatraman Email & Phone Number

Boston

• Designed two-day intensive retreat curriculum around racial, gender, economic and queer justice, and one-day intensive session on campus and community organizing and leadership• Hired 12-14 staff, completed outreach to 8-10 partner schools and supervised retreat with 65+ students from schools across New England for eight successful sessions between 2015 and 2019

Greater Boston Area

• Evaluating and developing recommendations around organizational staffing and structure, as well as mission and strategic direction, through engaging alumni and other key stakeholders in interviews and focus groups

Dorchester, Ma

• Directed high quality year-round youth leadership development programs focused on racial, gender, economic and queer justice for 100+ young people in the Boston area• Mentored and coached 8-10 youth and young adults year-round• Developed racial and social justice curriculum rooted in the popular education model• Strengthened program systems for individualized youth support and holistic youth development • Supervised and trained 16-20 summer staff in curriculum development, facilitation and youth mentorship• Developed fundraising and communications systems to strengthen donor and in-kind fundraising• Managed $80-100K program budget and 10-12 strategic organizational partnerships

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Greater Boston Area

• Assessed challenges of organization’s leadership structure through interviews with current and former staff and youth leaders; led organization through process of developing options for, evaluating and selecting a new leadership structure; offered executive coaching to key leadership throughout process

Greate

• Co-organized a multi-year campaign to increase youth jobs funding in the city of Boston• Supported leadership and organizing skill development with 8-10 youth leaders and organizers• Oversaw $75K organizational budget, and wrote 10+ grants and grant reports annually

Greater Boston Area

• Provided weekly individual psychotherapy using a feminist relational lens to a caseload of 12 undergraduate students; clinical exploration focused on experiences of anxiety, depression, academic challenges, dissociation and PTSD contextualized through analysis of structural and institutional racism • Engaged in weekly outreach at the campus Multicultural Center to increase use of the Counseling Center by students of color• Presented and discussed cases in weekly Feminist Theory and Practice Seminars and large and small group supervision

Greater Boston Area

• Member and performer of pan-Asian multi-generational women's taiko drumming troupe

Greater Boston Area

• Provided individualized clinical counseling with a caseload of 5-8 clients, all adults experiencing homelessness navigating substance use, mental health issues and trauma• Facilitated drop-in substance use recovery groups twice a week focused on coping skill development

Greater Boston Area

• Co-coordinated a Strategic Planning Process, monthly joint political education sessions and coalition meetings to align the work of six grassroots racial justice youth organizing groups

Boston, M

Greater Boston Area

• Summer: served as a youth worker for over 25 high school aged junior counselors; trained and facilitated community leadership development workshops, and organized 1000-person Midsummer Celebration • School-year: served as a youth worker for 20 high school students; designed and facilitated leadership workshops; oversaw $12,500 program budget

Cambridge, Ma

Boston, Ma

Cambridge, Ma

Masters In Clinical Social Work

Bachelor Of Arts, Social Studies And Women, Gender And Sexuality Studies

Activities and Societies: Phillips Brooks House Association, Leaders! Program, Athena Program, First-Year Urban Program, Ghungroo

High School Diploma