Tyra Gravesande
Board of Directors
Tyra Gravesande (Grayv-Sanne-Dee) is an Associate at Nonprofit Professionals Advisory Group or “NPAG”. She works closely with her team to manage outreach to network contacts in order to develop deep, diverse, highly qualified candidate pools; manages high volume of contact points with authenticity and aplomb, captures and tracks critical data; and develop compelling narratives to engage leaders meaningfully around the challenges our clients face with the sexual and reproductive health organizational spaces. To no avail, she is particularly passionate and experienced in sexual and reproductive health, particularly health disparities and maternal health that pertains to black women, as well as being motivated by a vision of creating more equitable and inclusive communities.
Her career journey includes working as a Health Equity Intern at Impact Health in Washington, DC, where she conducted research and analysis of federal health policy developments. She prepared advocacy materials for clients and summarized congressional hearings and administration meetings related to Medicare, Medicaid, and commercial insurance markets. Tyra also worked as a Diversity and Health Equity Intern at the PAN Foundation in Washington, DC. In this role, she conducted research and analysis, particularly in organizations focused on minority populations, nonprofits focused on therapeutic areas, physician organizations, and patient advocacy organizations. She collaborated cross-functionally to develop metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs) for the DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) and Health Equity scorecards. Additionally, she tracked and improved key D/HE metrics and communicated process improvement opportunities across the organization. She has also served as a Bioethics and Health Policy Intern at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, TX. Tyra has also completed and published a manuscript on Black maternal health and health policy. She shadowed clinical ethics consultants and participated in research and writing that supported the clinical ethics mission. She also presented her work at the annual Center Research Showcase. Additionally, her role as a Research Assistant at the Maya Angelou Center for Health Equity underscores her capacity to analyze and synthesize data to investigate racial disparities in the experiences of caregivers during the pandemic.
Tyra received her BA in Comparative Women’s Studies from Spelman College with a concentration in Women’s Health and is currently a Masters Candidate at Clarkson University and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Studying Bioethics with a concentration in Health Policy.
Outside of work, Tyra is a New Jersey native, however she enjoys traveling to New York City, Atlanta and Tulsa to visit friends and family and enjoy the different sceneries. She also enjoys traveling to the Carribbean Islands to bask in the sun, shopping, reading, and all things beauty and food.
