Besides her Director and Assistant General Counsel responsibilities, Tanya is the co-chair of the National Grid DEI committee in US Legal. Playing a vital role in driving the diversity agenda in the General Counsel Group, Tanya organized a trial reenactment of the historic case James Meredith vs. Ole Miss, spotlighting the achievements of Constance Baker Motley, the first black woman attorney on the Southern District of New York (SDNY) federal bench, for the group’s global Black History Month Program. Tanya spearheads and is a frequent speaker on DEI as well as employment law panels on pay equity, parity and gender bias. Recently, she spoke for the SDNY Federal Bar Association’s – “Grab Them by the Workplace: Understanding Sexual Harassment in the #MeToo Era” program as well as for the NYC Bar Association’s “Preventing and Addressing Sexual Harassment Post Cuomo” program. Tanya is currently a 2022 Leadership Council on Legal Diversity fellow.
