Tammy Hanks, Ph.D.

Tammy is the executive director of CLNkids in Albuquerque, NM. They provide trauma-informed early childhood education to homeless children aged 5 weeks – 5 years, as well as case management and wrap-around services to their parents, all with hopes of ending childhood homelessness in New Mexico (Clnkids.org).

She and her partner Nancy Roope founded Beyond 12, a nonprofit organization that was dedicated to providing safety for South African AIDS orphans and children who had been victims of child rape. She has worked in a number of human service agencies serving marginalized populations, and is an experienced program developer, director, and grant writer.