As an advocate for human and empathy-centered systems and processes, Tara Shuai Ellison (she/her) has dedicated her career to developing people, departments, and organizations to their fullest potential and greatest impact. With over two decades of nonprofit management, organizational development, human resources, operations, and financial management experience in movements for social, racial, gender, LGBTQIA+, and economic justice, Tara loves helping nonprofits and the people powering them thrive to do their best work.

Tara has had the privilege of working with some of the progressive movement’s most innovative, rapidly-growing nonprofits and foundations, including the Groundswell Fund, the National Domestic Workers Alliance, Fair Care Labs, the Third Wave Fund, and the National LGBTQ Task Force. She loves HR & ops nerdery, and is a co-founder of Rad Ops, a Facebook group for HR, operations, and finance professionals in progressive and radical nonprofits. Tara is a co-author of “The Equitable Hiring Guide” and Companion Toolkit, a practical step-by-step guide for leaders who want to infuse equity into every aspect of their hiring. Tara serves as a board member of the Highlander Research and Education Center and has also served as a board member and Treasurer of the Audre Lorde Project, NOLOSE, and as an organizer of the Big Fat Flea.

In 2022, Tara founded Shuai Strategies to work with more organizations, have a broader impact, and experiment with pushing the boundaries of traditional HR even further. She wanted to dive deep and work to find both/and solutions to either/or problems by exploring innovations and experiments in the radical HR & OD space.

Tara is a a biracial Taiwanese queer femme and a work-to-live person, so when she’s not at her computer, you can find her living for food adventures, building queer, BIPOC & AAPI community, traveling to new places, and going to the dog beach with her pug Truffle.