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Staff Bios - Tanya Lewis-Kelly, Regional Director

 

Tanya Lewis-Kelly
Regional Director

Tanya Lewis-Kelly is the Regional Director of the Volunteer Consulting Group. Her responsibilities include: (1) Working with nonprofit organizations in defining their board recruiting priorities and finding qualified candidates to fill them; (2) Work with businesses in preparing their employees for board service; and (3) Board Consulting.

Prior to joining VCG, Ms. Lewis-Kelly worked at the Center For Court Innovation--a nonprofit organization that develops national demonstration projects, which test how courts can better serve its constituencies. During these seven years she held positions as Senior Planner, Director of Youth and Family Programs and Deputy Project Director for the Harlem Community Justice Center. In her capacity as Deputy Project Director she managed all fundraising and grant administration and authored $3M in successful proposals.

From 1993 through 1996, Ms. Lewis-Kelly worked as a Program Associate and Research Manager at the Children's Defense Fund where she researched principle data for nationwide public education material and developed talking points for internationally recognized child advocate, Marian Wright Edelman. In addition, she held positions at the Westchester County Press as a Managing Editor and the United States House of Representatives under Congresswoman Nita M. Lowey as a Field Representative.

Ms. Lewis-Kelly has a B.S. from Cornell University. She was a Public Policy Major at the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at New York University and a Center on Budget and Policy Priorities Everett Fellow.

Ms. Lewis-Kelly resides in Hastings-On-Hudson with her husband and daughter.