Tamara Winfrey-Harris is the president of Women’s Foundation of Indiana, which answers the community's call by investing in systems change, advocating for women’s rights, and building collective power for women and girls. The Women’s Foundation envisions an Indiana where all who identify as women and girls exercise full power to decide how to live their lives.
She is the immediate past board chair of ACLU-IN and serves proudly on the boards of Leadership Indianapolis, Mays Family Institute of Philanthropy and the Center for Disaster Philanthropy.
Tamara is also a nationally renowned writer, speaker and thought leader, focusing on issues of race and gender and their intersection with politics, popular culture and current events. Her work has been published in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Los Angeles Times, Ms. magazine and other media. And it has appeared in books, including The Lemonade Reader: Beyonce, Black Feminism and Spirituality (Routledge, 2019); The Burden: African Americans and the Enduring Impact of Slavery (Wayne State University Press, 2018); and Black in the Middle: An Anthology of the Black Midwest (Black Belt Publishing, 2020). She has been invited to speak on issues of gender and race at venues across the country, including The Ohio State University, Northern Arizona University, Princeton University and others. In spring semester 2022, Tamara served as Liberator-in-Residence for Bennett College, a women’s HBCU in Greensboro, NC.
Tamara is the author of the award-winning book, The Sisters Are Alright: Changing the Broken Narrative of Black Women in America (2015, 2021), Dear Black Girl: Letters from Your Sisters on Stepping into Your Power (2021) and A Black Woman’s Guide to Getting Free (2024).