Tanya DeWolf

Company Overview: CIRA is committed to empowering immigrants and refugees through expert legal, resettlement, and social services.

• Director over the largest refugee resettlement agency in Nebraska, nationally recognized for its excellence in serving refugees
• Spearheaded innovative approaches to resource allocation and strategic planning.
• Wrote proposals, managed and reported on an average of 9 different grants at any given time. In 2024, these budgets totaled US$8,400,000 of government, state and private funding.
• Created and leveraged professional networks and industry knowledge to strengthen programming.
• Hired, trained, and managed 34 full time staff from 19 different countries of origin, and received community recognition for the values of diversity, equity and inclusion in our staffing.
• Addressed public media on many occasions, and presented speeches to community, state and national leaders.
• Resettled over 1,000 refugees each year, an increase from 220 refugees per year before I started

Company Overview: AIM is an innovative not-for-profit that grows, connects and inspires the tech talent ecosystem among underrepresented populations through career development and educational programs.

• Managed four federally-funded Education programs across two states
• Managed budget of US$6,800,000 each year
• Recruited, hired, evaluated, trained and supervised of staff in all programs
• Fundraised, prepared grant proposals, and prepared reports for all funding received
• Monitored school coordinators and school officials in order to assess quality of assistance offered to students.
• Worked with key personnel in schools and community to identify potential programming opportunities that would best suit the demographic being served.
• Wrote and continued to developed curricula used throughout the year
• Implemented program-level departmental policies and procedures to support educational program and curriculum.

Company Overview : LFS provides quality human care services that build and strengthen children and families in marginalized communities. LFS serves over 45,000 people annually in Nebraska.

• Created and managed educational and social work programs to assist at-risk youth and their families.
• Created and managed program standards, service delivery plans and program evaluation plans for the program.
• Recruited, hired, evaluated, trained and supervised staff, typically consisting of 18 full time employees in 4 different offices covering 26 counties.
• Overall direction, development, management and implementation of services within the program.
• Prepared, monitored and evaluated departmental budgets and kept operations compliant with allocated funding.

• Managed a very successful academic program in compliance with the University of Cambridge International Examination board standards, including creating monthly and bi-annual reports and responding to annual on-campus audits.
• Prepared and administered budget of US$808,000 to fund various academic, construction and scholarship programs.
• Recruited, hired, trained evaluated 46 academic staff.
• Appointed and directly supervised 8 Academic Heads of Departments.
• Implemented strategies to increase student recruiting, engagement and retention.
• Conferred with educators to rebalance classes, increase resource utilization, and integrate new technology.
• Developed and implemented student success initiatives to recognize and encourage achievement.

• Founded, created and managed a College and Career program.
• Created and continued to develop a robust, relevant curriculum that was effective for a very diverse population of students.
• Recruited, hired, trained and supervised school guidance counselors.

• Specifically assigned as Administrative SRA to over 200 international exchange students.
• Ensured international exchange students were welcomed from the start, developed healthy relationships in the community, received care for culture shock, and enjoyed their American stay while receiving a quality, relevant education.
• Ensured the Boston University student body as a whole benefited from the presence of the international exchange students by organizing culture clubs and events throughout the year.
• Developed, implemented and monitored a balanced, tracked program of social, educational, and recreational activities.
• Assisted in training and supervising resident assistants & other student staff throughout the entire university, who in turn served over 11,000 students in residence.
• Ensured safety and well-being of residents.
• Provided general administration of the residential area.

• Assisted Intensive English (ESL) professors to work with international students from non-English-speaking countries.
• Paired international students with English-speaking classmates and promoted study partnerships outside the classroom.
• Provided assistance outside the classroom with issues ranging from culture shock to accessing basic needs in their new surrounding community.
• Supervised research, note-taking, essay-writing and homework.

• Second Language English Language Instructor (University of Cambridge Syllabus).
• First Language English Language Instructor (University of Cambridge Syllabus).
• Advanced Level Literature in English Instructor (University of Cambridge Syllabus).
• SAT lead tutor.
• Faculty member in charge of the student-run school newspaper.