Tatiana is a community organizer, event producer, senior team + project leader, an immigrant, and a mother. Her multidisciplinary career has included work in community engagement + organizing, event planning and production, coalition building, policy + stakeholder-led advocacy strategy, partnership and resource stewardship, and program design + management — in issue areas spanning community-driven placemaking, local food economies + immigrant food ways, public market + street vendor advocacy, place-based sustainability + resilience strategy, and land + soil preservation. Her experience includes work with City Harvest, the National Parks Conservation Association, American Farmland Trust, City Parks Foundation, and the Street Vendor Project.

She is driven by a deep commitment to advancing community solidarity + self-determination through both policy and practice.

Tatiana is of Ukrainian + Russian heritage and immigrated (from the former Soviet Union) to Syracuse, New York in 1991. She earned a B.A of Motivational Psychology, Self-Determination Theory from the University of Rochester and a Master's of Science in Nonprofit Management and Community Development from The New School.

After 15 years in (Queens) New York City, in 2019 —Tatiana moved back upstate, onto land (and regenerative family farm) in Cazenovia, NY — where she lives with her husband Cory, her son Miles, her daughter Nina, and a whole lot of animals. She is happiest around a big table, sharing a family meal with friends + loved ones.