Tanya M. Odom, Ed. M. is a FutureWork Institute, Inc.^® consultant, facilitator, trainer, and speaker. She has conducted hundreds of workshops for adults and youth around the United States and Europe, including: Diversity 2016: What Does Your Future Hold?, Educational Equity, Human Rights Education, Intercultural Awareness, Hate Crime Prevention, and Conflict Management.

As a FutureWork consultant, Ms. Odom works with corporations in the United States and Europe in their efforts to address diversity issues and create sustainable change in organizations. She has delivered global training for a pharmaceutical company on the Workforce, Workplace and Marketplace of 2016. She has also worked with clients on understanding the employee and customer of 2016. Her areas of specialty include: Future Workforce and Marketplace Trends, Racism, Gender Communication, Disabilities, Recruitment and Retention, Work/Life Balance, Mentoring, Cross-Cultural Interviewing, and Global Diversity. In addition to her extensive work with corporate clients, she has worked with students, staff, and administrators at colleges and universities across the US and with a variety of law enforcement agencies: Ms. Odom has traveled extensively, and has both lived and worked abroad. In Mexico and the Dominican Republic, she worked as a community development assistant and health advocate. She is fluent in Spanish.

Ms. Odom has been involved in the European Union's projects focusing on bias, discrimination, bigotry and tolerance. In this capacity she has facilitated diversity workshops for adults and youth in nine European countries. She is currently a consultant for the European Peer Training Organization, where she works on creating diversity programming, training, and information sharing in Europe. This program has been cited as a Best Practice program by the European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia. She is a member of the Bertelsmann Foundation's International Tolerance Network, where she works with theorists, academics, and practitioners from around the world on issues of tolerance and anti-bias research, programming, and training. She also served as a delegate to the World Conference Against Racism in South Africa.

She has recently co-authored the publication "Evaluation in the Field of Education for Democracy, Human Rights and Tolerance," which has been released in Europe, Asia and Latin America.

Ms. Odom has spoken on issues of race and multiculturalism on Newstalk Television cable show and HOT-97 radio program. She has served as a national advisor to the Public Television's Many Faces/Many Voices campaign. Her work, research and commentary have been mentioned in Fortune Magazine, The Daily News, The Village Voice and most recently Court TV.

Ms. Odom has presented at several national conferences and symposiums, including the U.S. Department of Education's Regional Conference, where she discussed the role of students in the educational reform movement; the National Child Welfare League of America conference, where she presented a session entitled "In the Absence of Childhood"; the National Conference of African-American Scholarship at Towson State University, where she presented a paper on "Birth bestowed battles and the virtue of formalized traditions."

Ms. Odom has worked as an adjunct professor at Manhattanville College, where she taught graduate courses in the areas of Diversity, Leadership, and Team Development. She has also taught a course at the Center for Conflict Resolution at the University of Capetown in South Africa. She is the first female President of the Board of Directors of Townsend Harris High School at Queens College, and an Advisory Board member of Camp Amerikids, a camp for children infected and affected by HIV and AIDS. In addition, she is currently working on a Harlem Oral History Project with We Care Media.

Ms. Odom has a Masters degree in Education from Harvard University. She received her B.A. in Anthropology/Sociology with a minor in Women's Studies from Vassar College.

todom@futureworkinstitute.com