Tanya Weinberg, Director of Communications

As Director of Communications, Tanya leads the Foundation’s communications strategy to expand access to justice to all District residents, regardless of wealth, knowledge, or power.  In this role, Tanya is privileged to work alongside a team of talented communicators, innovative subject-matter experts, and deeply committed grantee partners to demonstrate how civil legal aid transforms lives—empowering vulnerable District residents to address legal problems that threaten their ability to stay housed, safe, and healthy.  

Tanya is passionate about the power of storytelling to spark change and spent a decade as a newspaper and radio journalist before pivoting to nonprofit communications. For the past 15-plus years, she has led communications teams and strategies at organizations committed to delivering justice, education, and equal opportunity in local communities and around the world.  

Prior to joining the Foundation, she served as Chief Communications Officer at the World Justice Project, where she built and led an international communications team that engaged diverse audiences with data-driven insights and innovative strategies to counter the global rule of law recession. Earlier, as Senior Director of Strategic Communications at the nation’s largest law school, Georgetown Law, Tanya transformed the school’s external communications strategy—expanding media coverage, elevating digital-first storytelling, and contributing to record-breaking student applications and fundraising during the school’s 150th anniversary campaign. Earlier, Tanya held a variety of communications roles at Save the Children, where she advanced national and global campaigns to invest in children’s futures through policy change, high-quality early education, lifesaving healthcare, and child-friendly emergency response and preparedness.   

Tanya has lived in Washington, D.C., for more than 20 years and is grateful to the American Political Science Association for awarding her the Congressional Fellowship for Journalists that gave her a front-row seat to U.S. policymaking and brought her to the city she loves. She is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia Journalism School, studied film and video production at American University, and is an avid traveler who spent several years teaching English and volunteering in South America. Tanya enjoys hiking in the woods, growing tomatoes and jalapeños in her community garden, and stumbling into philosophical conversations with open-minded people.