Tina Curry
Year you became part of the HSH community: 2017
Current occupation: Equal Employment Opportunity Officer
Areas of expertise: Human Resources, Recruitment and Hiring, Equal Employment Opportunity Compliance, Training and Development, and DEI
Why is service on a Board important to you?
Service on this Board is important for me because what happens at HSH directly impacts my children, my family, and the future of all children attending HSH. I believe current HSH students are our future leaders and they deserve all our support in this time where learning habits start and matter.
What drew you to HSH?
The diversity, the community of kind and genuine families, and the class size.
Tina Curry is an accomplished Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) manager, strategist, consultant, and a highly sought-after Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Compliance expert. She has served as an Equal Employment Opportunity Officer; a Principal Analyst of Human Resources; a Sr. Consultant of Equity and EEO; a Coordinator of Affirmative Action and HR Compliance; and a Staffing Coordinator. During her 15-year career, she has built one EEO Programs office, and developed strategies, policies, and programs on diversity, equity, and inclusion matters. She has coached, trained, and counseled executives, senior leadership, and departments on federal and state compliance laws and regulations, and built DEI strategic plans that impact employees, workplace cultures, and vested stakeholders.
Tina was born and raised in Northwest Indiana, just outside of Chicago. She earned her bachelor’s degree from Indiana University and master’s degree in Industrial Organizational Psychology. She is a certified Professional in Human Resources (PHR) and holds multiple other professional certifications.
As a Los Angeles-based consultant of learning and challenging cultural dialogues, Tina creates welcoming and safe spaces for people to engage, explore, and grow. Each individual is at a different point in their personal and professional DEI journeys and Tina meets people where they are. She makes difficult conversations easy and facilitates learning, empathy, connections, and growth through dialogue. Her approach to DEI leads clients through personal, professional, and organizational transformations.
When Tina is not professionally working, she is busy being a mom to two very active boys, Julian Jr. and Maze, and a wife to her husband Julian Sr. whom she has been with for more than 23 years. She serves as a part-time “soccer mom” running her sons around to multiple sports functions including Jiu-Jitsu, Soccer, Basketball, Baseball, and Swim. She especially loves reading to her kids, family game nights, vacationing, and going to the movies in her spare time.
Tina also gains personal fulfillment through her active leadership on Boards and Committees that fight for justice, equity, and access for kids in private schools. She serves on the Leadership Committee of Somos Private School Village, which exists to cultivate and harness the power of community to positively transform private school experiences for Black and Brown families so that students fully thrive.
Through her personal life and professional career, Tina sets her sights on transforming individual stigmas and beliefs about diversity and the differences among each person by building awareness, empathy, and emotional intelligence within early education. In all that she does, Tina tries to live every aspect of her life by “doing what is right and doing what is best,” and in that order.