Tanya Fields Bio

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Tanya Fields is a young, budding activist and social entrepreneur based in the South Bronx. Tanya became involved in social and environmental activism out of necessity. She grew up in Harlem in the 80’s and 90’s and was bussed to school in more affluent neighborhoods and as she went on to get her education and became more cognizant of the injustices happening around her both locally and nationally she felt compelled to become involved but wasn’t entirely sure how. It was upon her pursuing her degree in Political Science while raising a child and living in an undeserved community where she realized her very livelihood dependent upon her becoming more civically engaged. She initially became involved with Mothers on the Move’s environmental justice committee where she was quickly identified as a potential EJ activist and organizer and within in a year she had several, press quotes, radio interviews and press conferences locally and nationally under her belt. After a year she became the Outreach Coordinator at Sustainable South Bronx where she continued to be identified and validated as an effective local resource and continues to grow as an advocate for South Bronx residents and for undeserved peoples in nationally. Simultaneously, she has incorporated and is building a media company that seeks to unite women of the Diaspora through media, entertainment and community projects. She recently unveiled her socially conscious t-shirt line BLK, maintains a blog called Brown Girl Swagger and started a free yoga class targeting women of color in the South Bronx entitled Holistic Hood. Tanya’s ultimate goal is to help facilitate ushering in a new democratic system that gives the power back to the communities, promote sustainability in environmental justice communities by investing in green collar jobs and economy and to head up her own non-for profit that would address these issues in a creative, funky and artistic way!

You can find out more about Tanya at:

http://blkgrl.com/blog

http://blkgrl.com

http://tanyafields.com (under construction)

http://ssbx.com

http://greeningtheghetto.blogspot.com