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Tania Hino
Tania Hino (she/her), a brilliantly minded visionary strives to create safe spaces for people of color to be heard, seen and active in leadership roles. Her storytelling surpasses her own imagination, creating a vivid world where dreams become realities. As a parent of three, she sees change itself as a way of growing and learning. Fear cannot stand in the way of creating a world of equality and justice for all.
Tania’s own life is a neatly designed puzzle of many multicultural backgrounds allowing her to experience the struggles and gold space for others to move through the struggles. Her passion for life guides her in courageous acts of service, reaching marginalized communities. She stands with integrity in her work and home life. Her personal values; integrity, love of culture, respect and enjoying the process carry through into her work and community outreach.
Tania understands that communal health and well being is what allows us to move forward together as a human race. Tania never stops learning and reaching even further to create and support change. As she works on her dissertation, she is thriving in directing a podcast, Parenting Takes a Village, participating in her life partnership of 25 years, parenting her three children and caring for her dog, Idly.
Her beautiful native language, Spanish, reached even the youngest audiences through her storytelling and songs at Seattle Public Library. No matter the age or ability of the person, Tania reaches and impacts their life.
Tania’s awards speak for her activism and dedication within and through her community. Tania was recognized for founding Somos Mujeres Latinas (SML) non profit, focused on educating the Latina/x community in 2017. Tania was awarded the Val Danato parent education award for excellence in teaching and building community for children, families and teachers in 2017. Through Tania’s masters program at University of Washington, she was awarded the Golden Feather award for the School of Social Work in advocating for those with disabilities in 2002. Tania continues to be involved in the Latina community, raising awareness and holding space for those voices.
Tania supports her community by her involvement in North Seattle College working with parent education and Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI). Tania is leading the James Baldwin Elementary school name change, the Aurora bridge commission, sitting on the board for legal women’s voter rights in Washington, advocating for the Latina community fund and working with King County election for voter suppression. Tania continues to broaden her community involvement and education while pursuing her PhD in social justice through creating courageous BIPOC spaces. Tania continues to support and uplift the Latina/x community by building SML and focusing on EDI.
You will find her in the garden admiring the flowers, on the water or running around to lend a hand to the community. Tania views her community work closely to how she parents. “It’s not about raising a child on how I want them to be. They are like plants, they will come up how they want to be. I just need to support them.”
“Tania is one of the most inspiring and humble community leaders I know. She leads with the heart and is transforming how our community can work together for the better. ”