Tanya Meisenholder

Director of Gender Equity

   tm4311@nyu.edu

Tanya is the Director of Gender Equity at the Policing Project. In this role, she oversees the 30x30 Initiative, a national initiative to advance women in policing.

Tanya has over two decades of experience in law enforcement, primarily at the New York City Police Department (NYPD.) During her tenure at the NYPD, Tanya served in various leadership roles, including Deputy Commissioner of Equity and Inclusion, Assistant Commissioner of Strategic Initiatives, and Chief of Staff to the First Deputy Police Commissioner. Her work focuses on police reform, organizational change, diversity, equity, inclusion, training and development, and risk management.

Tanya holds a Ph.D. in criminal justice from the State University of New York at Albany. She is certified as a Modern Chief Diversity Officer and in EEO investigations by the Industrial and Labor Relations School at Cornell University. She currently serves on the Advisory Board for the University of Albany's Rockefeller College of Public Affairs.