Farah Tanis
Executive Director, The Reconciliation Center (formerly Black Women’s Blueprint); CEO and Founder, Restore Forward
A feminist and human rights advocate, Farah Tanis addresses sexual violence against women and girls in African American, African, and Afro-Caribbean communities. She is Executive Director of The Reconciliation Center, formerly Black Women’s Blueprint, and CEO and Founder of Restore Forward, where Black Women’s Blueprint now lives. Ms. Tanis’ organization has designed gender-violence prevention and intervention trainings for clients including historically Black colleges and universities. Ms. Tanis convened the first Black Women’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission in the United States focusing on Black women and sexual assault. Founder and a lead curator of the Museum of Women’s Resistance, Ms. Tanis serves in prominent anti-violence and human rights programs and has received numerous awards for her human rights work.
“It is by taking bold action towards justice that we practice liberation, heal ourselves, and shift violent paradigms, lifting the foot of oppression off our necks so we can be free, so we can envision communities without sexual violence and exploitation, and make that vision manifest.”