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Tariro Tandi

Vice President at Women Enabled International

Tariro Tandi has a dynamic career spanning over 15 years. She has established herself as a seasoned Resource Mobilization and Partnerships Specialist. Prior to her current role as Partnerships & Development Officer at Global Greengrants Fund, she served as the Director of Partnerships and Development at Urgent Action Fund Africa. Throughout her career, she has cultivated deep expertise in fundraising, resource mobilization, donor management, and strategic partnership development, complemented by a nuanced understanding of philanthropy.

Drawing from her frontline experience as an activist, Tariro has worked extensively with disability movements, environmental justice movements, feminist groups, LGBTQI communities, and economic justice advocates. This grassroots involvement has shaped her unique perspective on philanthropy, informing her approach to ensuring that funding genuinely responds to movement needs and that these movements influence philanthropic directions. Tariro is particularly passionate about development communications, as she believes in storytelling as a tool to amplify community voices and narratives.

Her commitment to strategic communication and movement building has now led her to pursue a Ph.D. in Communication, where her research explores how social justice movements utilize strategic communication tactics to advance their causes. She examines how social justice movements leverage digital communications in their advocacy work, with a particular focus on the role of narratives and counter-narratives as integral components of movement building and social change. Through this research, she explores how movements harness digital platforms and storytelling to challenge dominant narratives and advance their causes. Central to her work is understanding how these digital narratives intersect with efforts to decolonize philanthropy – questioning whose stories are centered, whose voices are deemed credible, and why certain narratives hold power while others are marginalized. Her research critically examines how traditional philanthropic structures often privilege Global North perspectives while sidelining voices from the Global South, and how digital platforms can either perpetuate or challenge these power dynamics in storytelling and knowledge production.

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