Farah Tanis was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti and immigrated to the United States in 1982. She is a Clinical Social Worker and a Certified Family Therapist. In 1999, Ms. Tanis founded Dwa Fanm (meaning “women’s rights” in Haitian Creole) with other Haitian and American women in her community to promote the rights, dignity, respect and survival of Haitian women and girls. She served on the board of directors for the first two years until 2002, when she became the organization’s first Executive Director.
Her work with the Haitian immigrant community began in 1995 with the Brooklyn AIDS Task Force and Kings County Hospital, providing supportive services, advocacy and psychosocial counseling to refugees and immigrants living with HIV/AIDS.
Ms. Tanis began her social work studies at New York University, completed her Masters in Clinical Social Work at Fordham University and her Post-Masters Certification in Family Therapy at Hunter College’s Post-Graduate Clinical Studies.
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